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Software testing (both development and regression) is costly and therefore must be conducted in a planned and systematic way to optimize overall testing objectives. One of the key objectives is to assure the reliability of software system that needs an extensive testing. To plan and guide software testing, the very first requirement is to find the number of tests (size) and thereafter allocationg the tests to various functions/modules. This chapter presents a model based approach to plan, guide, and allocate test cases to achieve more reliable system.
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Pandey, A.K., Goyal, N.K. (2013). Software Reliability and Operational Profile. In: Early Software Reliability Prediction. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 303. Springer, India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1176-1_7
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