Summary for Week 13

• Lecture 33: We finished our discussion on usage-based testing. We found out how to use Markov chains to discover hot paths and high-usage states.
  Date: Mon, 11/25/02.
• Lecture 34:We covered Ballista as an example of black-box testing. Information about Ballista can be found here. Students can download the slides that I used and should also download the following paper:
  • The Exception Handling Effectiveness of POSIX Operating Systems, Philip Koopman and John DeVale, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol 26, No 9, September 2000.
  
  Date:Wed, 11/27/01.
  Note:There was no classon Fri, 11/29/02 because of thanksgiving.