Editing Software testing (section)

== History ==

[[Glenford J. Myers]] initially introduced the separation of [[debugging]] from testing in 1979.<ref name="Myers 1979">{{Cite book |last=Myers |first=Glenford J. |url=https://archive.org/details/artofsoftwaretes00myer |title=The Art of Software Testing |publisher=John Wiley and Sons |year=1979 |isbn=978-0-471-04328-7 |author-link=Glenford Myers}}</ref> Although his attention was on breakage testing ("A successful test case is one that detects an as-yet undiscovered error."<ref name="Myers 1979" />{{rp|16}}), it illustrated the desire of the software engineering community to separate fundamental development activities, such as debugging, from that of verification.