Thursday, April 26, 2012

SQA: The Oracle Problem

Testing involves examining the behaviour of a system in order to discover potential faults.

The problem of determining the desired correct behaviour for a given input is called the Oracle Problem. 

Since manual testing is expensive and time consuming there has been a great deal of work on automation and part automation of Software Testing. However, the problem of automating the Oracle remains a bottleneck that inhibits progress in increased automation for test effectiveness and efficiency.


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