DocumentCode :
2033297
Title :
Path selection in the structural testing: proposition, implementation and application of strategies
Author :
Peres, Letícia M. ; Vergilio, Silvia R. ; Jino, Mario ; Maldonado, José C.
fYear :
2001
fDate :
2001
Firstpage :
240
Lastpage :
246
Abstract :
Structural testing criteria help the tester in the generation and evaluation of a test case set T. They are predicates to be satisfied to consider the testing activity ended and generally require the execution of a set P of paths, capable of exercising certain elements in the program under testing. Determining P is an important and hard task, and its automation is strongly desirable for easing the criteria application. This task can influence on the efficacy and on the testing effort and costs. This work explores the use of diverse programs characteristics to propose strategies for selection of testing paths. The work also describes a module that implements a framework for representation and automation of those strategies. Using this module, a testing procedure is presented and a strategy, that uses the number of predicates to select paths, is evaluated. The obtained results give some information about the main advantage of this strategy: to easy the automatic test data generation by reducing the number of selected infeasible paths
Keywords :
program testing; software metrics; automation; path selection; structural testing; test case set evaluation; test case set generation; Automatic testing; Automation; Costs; Flow graphs; Input variables; Software engineering; Software metrics; Software quality; Software testing;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Computer Science Society, 2001. SCCC '01. Proceedings. XXI Internatinal Conference of the Chilean
Conference_Location :
Punta Arenas
ISSN :
1522-4902
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1396-4
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/SCCC.2001.972653
Filename :
972653
Link To Document :
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