Program Instrumentation and Software Testing

1 April 1978

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Computer

Vol. 11 (4) , 25-32
https://doi.org/10.1109/c-m.1978.218134

Abstract

The program tester needs to know what goes on inside a program as it executes during a test Instrumentation methods permit collection of testing coverage data without modifying the logical properties of programs being tested.

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