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Peter Farrell-Vinay

"Manage Software Testing"

Allegedly ???unfixable??? bugs merit close management attention. Why
are they being raised? What cannot be fixed? (See Figure A.60.)
FIGURE A.57 Release history
FIGURE A.58 Release interval analysis
FIGURE A.59 Bug-finding ability of test environments
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406 Manage Software Testing
A.11 Case Study: Testing a Formal Requirements Specification
(TransitCard Ticketing System)
This section provides the context and background details of a system fragment called the TransitCard
Ticketing System. It:
??? Identifies the document structure of the TransitCard development
??? The context of the system to be developed
??? Illustrates an approach to testing a safety-critical system
??? . . .
A.11.1 Documentation Structure
This section identifies the relationships between the various kinds of documents used in this example
(Figure A.61).
A.11.2 System Context
This system is concerned with a ticketing subsystem to be employed on an underground system. It has
four parts: the ticket, the ticket charger, the ticket reader and access controller, and the station computer.


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