{"title":"Comparative evaluation of expert system testing methods","authors":"Shekhar H. Kirani, I. Zualkernan, W. Tsai","doi":"10.1109/TAI.1992.246425","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Effective testing (validation, verification and evaluation) for expert systems is becoming important. A comparative evaluation of black-box, white-box, consistency, and completeness testing methods is performed based on the criteria of effectiveness, robustness, and cost. Testing methods are evaluated using life-cycle mutation testing on a VLSI manufacturing diagnostic expert system. The results indicate that dynamic-flow testing can be used to catch faults in all phases of software development.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":265283,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fourth International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence TAI '92","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1992-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"18","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings Fourth International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence TAI '92","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAI.1992.246425","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Effective testing (validation, verification and evaluation) for expert systems is becoming important. A comparative evaluation of black-box, white-box, consistency, and completeness testing methods is performed based on the criteria of effectiveness, robustness, and cost. Testing methods are evaluated using life-cycle mutation testing on a VLSI manufacturing diagnostic expert system. The results indicate that dynamic-flow testing can be used to catch faults in all phases of software development.<>