Foundations of Software Testing 2E ADITYA P. MATHUR

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Foundations of Software Testing 2E
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Chapter 1:
Preliminaries: Software Testing

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Learning Objectives
Errors, Testing, debugging, test process, CFG, correctness, reliability,
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1.1 Humans, errors and testing (
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Errors

Errors are a part of our daily life.

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These fundamental facts of human existence
make testing an essential activity.

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Errors: Examples

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Error, faults, failures

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Software quality (contd.)
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