A Data Flow Oriented Program Testing Strategy

  • Authors:
  • J. W. Laski;B. Korel

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Engineering and Computer Science, Oakland University;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

Some properties of a program data flow can be used to guide program testing. The presented approach aims to exercise use-definition chains that appear in the program. Two such data oriented testing strategies are proposed; the first involves checking liveness of every definition of a variable at the point(s) of its possible use; the second deals with liveness of vectors of variables treated as arguments to an instruction or program block. Reliability of these strategies is discussed with respect to a program containing an error.