For years, people have appealed to engineering as the dominant metaphor for how software testing should be done. Yet there are many other metaphors that could provide value to learning about patterns and principles in software testing. As professional testers and non-professional musicians, we observe that music affords such a metaphor. What are the parallels between music and testing—especiall...

In this paper, we propose a design for testability method for test programs of software-based self-test using test program templates. Software-based self-test using templates has a problem of error masking where some faults detected in a test generation for a module are not detected by the test program synthesized from the test. The proposed method achieves 100% template level fault efficiency,...

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An implementation of a design for testability model for sequential circuits is presented. The jlip-jlops in a sequential circuit are partitioned to reduce the number of cycles and the path lengths in each partition, thereby reducing the complezity of test generation. The implementation includes a Podem-based test generator. Preliminary results using the Contest sequential test generator are pre...

DESIGN-FOR-TESTABILITY AND DIAGNOSIS METHODS TO TARGET UNMODELED DEFECTS IN INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND MULTI-CHIP BOARDS by