Cost estimation of software intensive projects: a survey of current practices
ICSE '91 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Software engineering
How to Design Practical Test Cases
IEEE Software
What Is Software Testing? And Why Is It So Hard?
IEEE Software
The anatomy of an FAA-qualifiable Ada subset compiler
Proceedings of the 2002 annual ACM SIGAda international conference on Ada: The engineering of correct and reliable software for real-time & distributed systems using Ada and related technologies
An open framework for managed regression testing
TestCom'03 Proceedings of the 15th IFIP international conference on Testing of communicating systems
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Structural testing, also called code-based or white-box testing, is performed for the purpose of exercising the code thoroughly. The code coverage measurements are used to evaluate the effectiveness of the test cases toward this goal. Manual, code-based testing is cumbersome and time-consuming. Automation provides help in selecting test data, applying those test cases to the software, and deciding whether a program has been tested enough by providing coverage metrics. This paper describes an automated module testing process for software written in Ada using a tool set called Test Set Editor (TSE). TSE consists of a proprietary set of programs which work in combination with Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program and home grown test scripts written in Tcl/tk. Use of the tool set is shown to yield significant cost savings in constructing structural tests needed to satisfy FAA certification requirements for safety-critical software.