Promoting the software design for testability towards a partial test oracle

Author

Lin, Jin-Cherng ; Yeh, Pu-Lin ; Yang, Shou-Chia

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Tatung Inst. of Technol., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

1997

fDate

14-18 Jul 1997

Firstpage

209

Lastpage

214

Abstract

Software testing is one of the most powerful methods to improve the software quality directly. Usually, testing costs on the large scales of 50% during software system development phase. How to reduce the testing cost thus becomes an important issue. The software design for testability maybe a new direction to solve this problem. Using the strategy of software design for testability, we develop a technique called “test condition oracle” to check the program´s correctness. The performance evaluation shows that this technique is an effective method for promoting software testability

Keywords

design for testability; program testing; software performance evaluation; software quality; correctness; partial test oracle; software design for testability; software quality; software system development phase; software testability; software testing; test condition oracle; Application software; Costs; Large-scale systems; Power system reliability; Software design; Software quality; Software reliability; Software systems; Software testing; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Technology and Engineering Practice, 1997. Proceedings., Eighth IEEE International Workshop on [incorporating Computer Aided Software Engineering]

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7840-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/STEP.1997.615486

Filename

615486