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Testability is the ability of software to facilitate testing and expose defects. Nowadays numerous methods for software testability measurement are based on the framework. As the limitation of the framework no existed method can satisfy the measurement requirements of embedded software testability completely. To solve this problem a measurement framework for embedded software testability is proposed. Four classes of universal elements: testability, testability characteristics, affecting factors, and relations are used to construct a steady framework structure. Elements in the framework can be updated according to the development of the software technology. The framework is all-purpose to embedded software testability measurement and an application indicates its feasibility.
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Fu, J., Liu, B., Lu, M. (2011). A Framework for Embedded Software Testability Measurement. In: Qi, L. (eds) Information and Automation. ISIA 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 86. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19853-3_15
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