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The measurement process plays a vital role in the quality assurance and testing of new hardware systems. To insure the reliability of the final hardware system, each stage of development incorporates performance standards and testing procedures. The establishment of software performance criteria has been very nebulous. At first the desire to "just get it working" prevailed in most software development efforts. With the increasing complexity of new and evolving software systems, improved measurement techniques are needed to facilitate disciplined program testing beyond merely debugging. The Program Testing Translator is an automatic tool designed to aid in the measurement and testing of software systems.
Leon G. Stucki (Sat,) studied this question.