The Symposium on Engineering Test Harness (TSETH '13),
in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC '13), IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 230-237 (2013) |
Pak-Lok Poon 2 , Tsong Yueh Chen 3 , and T.H. Tse 4
[paper from IEEE Xplore | paper from IEEE digital library | technical report TR-2013-05]
ABSTRACT |
Test case generation is a vital procedure in the engineering of test harnesses.
In particular, the choice relation framework and the category-partition method
play an important role,
by requiring software testers to identify categories
(intuitively equivalent to input parameters or environment conditions)
and choices (intuitively equivalent to ranges of values)
from a specification and to systematically work on the identified choices
to generate test cases.
Other specification-based test case generation methods
(such as the classification-tree method,
cause-effect graphing, and combinatorial testing)
also have similar requirements,
although different terminology such as classifications and classes
is used in place of categories and choices.
For a large and complex specification that contains many specification
components,
categories and choices may be identified separately from various kinds of
components.
We call this practice an incremental identification approach.
In this paper, we discuss our study involving 16 experienced
software practitioners and three commercial specifications.
Our objectives are to determine, from the opinions
of the practitioners,
(a) the popularity of an incremental identification approach,
(b) the usefulness of identifying categories and choices from various
kinds of specification components, and
(c) possible ways to improve the effectiveness of the identification
process.
Keywords: incremental identification, choice relation framework, specification-based testing, test case generation, test harness |
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