Finiteness and Bounds of Complete Test Point Sets for Program Verification
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CS76003-R
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1976
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Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Abstract
It is proven that there exists a finite set of test points that suffices to establish the equivalence of two programs s and t if some finite set S of programs can be identified that contains both s and t. It is also proven that the expected number of those test points is bounded by the logarithm of the cardinality of S.