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software testability: a standalone construct

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Software engineering

the likelihood that a program will fail on test inputs if it contains a fault, estimated so testing effort can target hard-to-test code.

In software engineering, software testability refers to the likelihood that a program will fail on test inputs if it contains a fault, estimated so testing effort can target hard-to-test code. This meaning comes from Voas (1995) in IEEE Software.[1]

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References

Voas, J. M., & Miller, K. W. (1995). Software testability: the new verification. IEEE Software, 12(3), 17-28. https://doi.org/10.1109/52.382180

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