A theoretical and empirical analysis of a TTCN-3 coupling metric

  • Authors:

  • M. S. Aboutrab;S. Counsell;T. Hall

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UK;Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UK;Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UK

  • Venue:
  • ECC'08 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on European computing conference
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Testing and Test Control Notation (TTCN-3) is a testing language for test suite specification. A Template Coupling Metric (TCM) was recently proposed by Zeiss et al. for measuring the degree of template coupling in TTCN-3 test suites. In this paper, we validate the TCM against validation criteria (both theoretical and empirical). The former was achieved through applying a set of validation properties - the latter by running experiments against a large TTCN-3 file. Results suggest that the TCM did not satisfy the majority of the theoretical validation properties and showed various flaws empirically. As such, the TCM may not useful in extracting the degree of template coupling and should be modified to improve its characteristics.