Background and objectives: Halo interference around antibiogram disc is one of the problems seen in Agar media. This study aimed at applying graded plate method to reduce this problem. Material and Methods: Forty-eight millimeter plates, before putting disc, were graded and the location of discs was determined. Instead of full disc, we used half-disc and then compared the haloe interference, ba...

This document describes the test estimate preparation technique known as test point analysis (TPA). TPA can be used to objectively prepare an estimate for a system test or acceptance test. TPA covers only so-called black-box testing; an estimate for the test activities, which precede black-box testing (i.e. white-box testing), will already have been included in the estimate produced by function...

This paper presents a method for the selection of test sequences from statecharts It is shown that a statechart can be transformed into a ow graph modeling the ow of both control and data in the statechart The transformation enables the application of conventional control and data ow analysis techniques to the test sequence selection from statecharts The resulting set of test sequences provides...

The scientific method serves as a good metaphor for several practices in Extreme Programming (XP). We explore the commonalities and differences and show that the scientific method, by analogy, can be used to better understand Test Driven Development (and vice versa).

The deoxyuridine suppression (dU) test measures the effect of deoxyuridine in suppressing the uptake of radioactively labelled tritiated thymidine into DNA and is specifically abnormal in vitamin B12 or folate deficiency, or when the metabolism of these is disturbed. The test is based on the observation that bone marrow cells from patients deficient in vitamin B12 incorporated much more thymidi...

This paper proposes a test generation method using a compacted test table and a test generation method using a compacted test plan table for RTL data path circuits with DFT where hierarchical test generations are applicable. Moreover, a heuristic algorithm for a compacted test plan table generation is proposed. The proposed methods could shorten test lengths for some RTL data path circuits comp...

Interoperability testing aims at verifying the possibility for two or more components to communicate correctly while providing the foreseen services. In this paper, we describe a new method for generating interoperability test cases. This method is equivalent to classical methods in terms of non-interoperability detection. Contrary to classical approaches, this method avoids the well-known stat...