השוואת שיטות

	בדיקות חלוקה לשקילות	מדדי מורכבות תוכנה
תחום	הנדסת תוכנה	הנדסת תוכנה
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1979	1976
הוגה השיטה	Glenford Myers	Thomas J. McCabe
סוג	partitioning strategy	quantitative measurement
מקור מכונן	Myers, G. J. (1979). The Art of Software Testing. John Wiley & Sons.	McCabe, T. J. (1976). A complexity measure. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2(4), 308–320.
כינויים	equivalence partitioning, BVA, boundary value analysis	code complexity analysis, complexity measurement
קשורות	4	4
תקציר	Equivalence partitioning divides input domains into equivalence classes—sets of inputs expected to behave identically—then selects test cases from each class. Introduced by Myers (1979), this technique reduces test cases while maintaining effectiveness. Boundary value analysis (BVA) complements partitioning by testing values at partition boundaries where failures often occur.	Software complexity metrics quantify the structural and operational difficulty of code through numerical measurements. Introduced by Thomas McCabe in 1976, cyclomatic complexity became the foundational approach. These metrics assess maintainability, testability, and defect risk, enabling teams to identify problematic code regions and guide refactoring efforts.