Computer Science – Software Engineering
Scientific paper
2001-09-14
Computer Science
Software Engineering
Short version of this paper to be published in Proceedings of 16th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Enginee
Scientific paper
Test suites are designed to validate the operation of a system against requirements. One important aspect of a test suite design is to ensure that system operation logic is tested completely. A test suite should drive a system through all abstract states to exercise all possible cases of its operation. This is a difficult task. Code coverage tools support test suite designers by providing the information about which parts of source code are covered during system execution. Unfortunately, code coverage tools produce only source code coverage information. For a test engineer it is often hard to understand what the noncovered parts of the source code do and how they relate to requirements. We propose a generic approach that provides design coverage of the executed software simplifying the development of new test suites. We demonstrate our approach on common design abstractions such as statecharts, activity diagrams, message sequence charts and structure diagrams. We implement the design coverage using Third Eye tracing and trace analysis framework. Using design coverage, test suites could be created faster by focussing on untested design elements.
Lencevicius Raimondas
Metz Edu
Ran Alexander
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