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A program testing assistant for BASIC-PLUS

Authors :
Mee-Yee Chan
Siu-Yuen Yam
Source :
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 9:89-103
Publication Year :
1984
Publisher :
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1984.

Abstract

A programmer often writes and tests programs in a bottom-up manner, producing code fragment by fragment and testing each fragment on a few examples to convince himself that the program works so far. These intermediate tests are typically lost without full utilization. The objective of this project is to create a kind of information retrieval system for test cases to remedy this situation. The "program testing assistant" described herein is intended to aid BASIC-PLUS programmers during incremental program development. As in the production of any piece of software tool, issues of ease of use and user-friendliness are of main concern in our testing assistant, along with software engineering considerations such as maintainability and reliability.

Details

ISSN :
01635948
Volume :
9
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........5b3415bd8fa9441ae242a45e6a9a82c7
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1145/1010925.1010931