[Clearly state the
conclusion, not just the cause (which is on the slide).Maybe put the conclusion on the slide,
too.]
Limited procedure
use: makepat has 5 parameters, 2 of which were always 0.The programmers reported that they could
perform “mental partial evaluation” rather than coping with its full
generality.Conclusion:easier to understand.
“Test suite
inadequacy” conclusion:a test case in
which the numbers of calls (in which in_set_2 is not called from stclose)
should be added.
(only used 300 of
5500 test cases in this particular experiment).
Test suite:in_set_2 never returned false because
calls(in_set_2) == calls(stclose).We
only used 100 of the 5542 test cases supplied w/the program.
Conclusion of
invariant diff:changes were correct.
These are at the
exits of the two routines.
Changes in
invariants when run using the modified program (on original and modified test
suite):e.g., stclose increased length
by 1; plclose increases length by at least 2.