Equivalence Class Testing (U)

Abstract

DO-178B/C guidelines state that an expected activity associated with normal range test cases is that real and integer input variables be exercised using valid equivalence classes and boundary values, and that robustness test case activities include real and integer variables being exercised using equivalence class selection of invalid values. In this report, the meaning of this guideline is explored by a careful development of the concepts of equivalence class along with related concepts such as equivalence relation and the partition of a set. An example of the application of this guideline to white box testing is presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 16, 2020
Accession Number
AD1101958

Entities

People

  • Anthony S. Cantone

Organizations

  • Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Boundaries
  • Classification
  • Construction
  • Data Sets
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Numbers
  • Real Numbers
  • Safety Engineering
  • Security
  • Software Testing
  • Systems Engineering
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Statistical inference.