Partition Testing Does Not Inspire Confidence (Program Testing)
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Analyzing Partition Testing Strategies
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Load testing software using deterministic state testing
ISSTA '93 Proceedings of the 1993 ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Software testing and analysis
A Critique of Software Defect Prediction Models
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Proceedings of the Conference on The Future of Software Engineering
Programming the Microsoft Windows Driver Model, Second Edition
Programming the Microsoft Windows Driver Model, Second Edition
Using operational distributions to judge testing progress
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Applied computing
The Art of Software Testing
Improving the reliability of commodity operating systems
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Error Propagation Profiling of Operating Systems
DSN '05 Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
On enhancing the robustness of commercial operating systems
ISAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Service Availability
Execution path profiling for OS device drivers: viability and methodology
ISAS'08 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Service availability
A systematic review of software robustness
Information and Software Technology
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Operating systems (OS) are increasingly geared towards support of diverse peripheral components, both hardware (HW) and software (SW), rather than explicitly focused on increased reliability of delivered OS services. The interface between the OS and the HW devices is provided by device drivers. Furthermore, drivers have become add-on COTS components to support the OS's capabilities of widespread device support. Unfortunately, drivers constitute a major cause of system outages, impacting overall service reliability. Consequently, the testing of drivers becomes important. However, despite the efforts to develop appropriate testing methods, the multitude of possible system configurations and lack of detailed OS specifications makes the task difficult. Not requiring access to OS source code, this paper develops novel, non-intrusive support for test methods, based on ascertaining test progress from a driver's operational state model. This approach complements existing schemes, enhancing the level of accuracy of the test process by providing test location guidance.