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University of Ulm
Faculty of Computer Science
Department of Applied Information Processing
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Testing of a Computer Program
on the Example of a Medical Application with
Diversification and other Methods
Thesis
presented by
Ingo Melzer
Care: Professor Dr. Franz Schweiggert
and Professor Dr. Helmuth Partsch
August 1996
Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease which -- at least up to now -- cannot be healed. Since more than seven per cent of all Europeans suffer from this illness, it is absolutely necessary to do research in this area. This requires precise, comparable documentations on the course of diabetes sicknesses. It concerns dealing with huge amounts of data which can only be done by computer programs like, for instance, DPV which has been developed at the University of Ulm.
To have a real chance of success, a high level of reliability of those software products is essential. This forces among other things, testing of the involved programs. Possibilities for such software tests , some information about diabetes mellitus , and the implementation of a black-box test on DPV will be given in this thesis .