Constraint Based Criteria: An Approach for Test Case Selection in the Structural Testing

Authors:
Silvia Regina Vergilio;José Carlos Maldonado;Mario Jino
Affiliations:
UFPR—Curitiba CP: 19081, 81531-970, Brazil. silvia@inf.ufpr.br;ICMSC-USP—São Carlos, 13560-970, Brazil. jcmaldon@icmc.sc.usp.br;DCA-FEEC-UNICAMP—Campinas, CP: 6101, 13083-970, Brazil. jino@dca.fee.unicamp.br
Venue:
Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications
Year:
2001

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Abstract

The selection of test cases to satisfy a structural testing criterion is a very important task because it concerns the quality of the generated test cases. The question is “How to select a test case or path to cover an element required by a structural criterion?” The Constraint Based Criteria are proposed with the goal of answering this question and improving the efficacy, that is, the number of revealed faults. These criteria permit the use of different testing strategies by associating constraints to the required elements. The constraints describe faults generally not revealed by the structural technique. The Constraint Based Criteria can also be used to assess test data sets adequacy.