An experimental evaluation of weak-branch criterion for class testing

  • Authors:
  • Rabins Porwal; Gursaran

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra 282 005, India;Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra 282 005, India

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Systems and Software
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In this paper an experiment has been presented in which we have formulated and tested various hypotheses on the fault detecting ability of the weak branch criterion ]J. Syst. Software 23 (1993) 95]. Further, sequences that satisfied the weak branch criterion were prefixed to another sequence so as to satisfy the strong branch criterion (ibid), and also to a sequence that was generated using the category partitioning method [Commun. ACM 31 (1988) 676]. The outcome of this addition has also been evaluated and compared. In particular, we have tried to test the possible influence of the following on the fault detecting ability: length of test-sequences, nature of the fault and class features. The experiment was carried out on eight classes that represented some of the important data structures used in programming and which were implemented in C++.