Beijing Union University, Dept. of Electronic Information, Software testing

Thumm, Mike (2007). "Talking Tactics". IEEE 2007 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC). IEEE, Inc. Retrieved 2009-02-03

The separation of debugging from testing was initially introduced by Glenford J. Myers in 1979.Although his attention was on breakage testing ("a successful test is one that finds a bug") it illustrated the desire of the software engineering community to separate fundamental development activities, such as debugging, from that of verification. Dave Gelperin and William C. Hetzel classified in 1988 the phases and goals in software testing in the following stages:

Until 1956 - Debugging oriented
1957–1978 - Demonstration oriented
1979–1982 - Destruction oriented
1983–1987 - Evaluation oriented
1988–2000 - Prevention oriented

Software testing

BCS SIGIST (British Computer Society Specialist Interest Group in Software Testing)

information on control flow testing and data flow testing