Authors

G.I. KOZHOMBERDIEVA, D.P. BURAKOV

Abstract

Testing is considered as an information process in which each test passed reduces uncertainty and increases the developer’s confidence in the performance of the program code. To evaluate the effectiveness of unit testing, entropy-information analysis is used, and the resulting expression can be used as one of the software reliability metrics, which is in good agreement with the known test coverage metric and refines it.

Keywords

entropy-information analysis; uncertainty; entropy; testing; program code; test coverage