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A program testing assistant for BASIC-PLUS

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Mee-Yee Chan,

Siu-Yuen YamAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 9, Issue 2

Pages 89 - 103

https://doi.org/10.1145/1010925.1010931

Published: 01 April 1984 Publication History

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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.

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Chapman, David. A Program Testing Assistant. Comm. ACM, 25, 9 (Sept 1982), pp 625--634.

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cover image ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 9, Issue 2

April 1984

120 pages

ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/1010925

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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 01 April 1984

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