Selecting Software Test Data Using Data Flow Information
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Numerical recipes: example book (C)
Numerical recipes: example book (C)
Automatic Generation of Path Covers Based on the Control Flow Analysis of Computer Programs
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Introduction To Automata Theory, Languages, And Computation
Introduction To Automata Theory, Languages, And Computation
A Formal Analysis of the Fault-Detecting Ability of Testing Methods
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Provable Improvements on Branch Testing
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Methodology for the Generation of Program Test Data
IEEE Transactions on Computers
A Data Flow Oriented Program Testing Strategy
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Experience with Path Analysis and Testing of Programs
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software testing: a graph theoretic approach
International Journal of Information and Communication Technology
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In this paper we present a new control-flow based approach to dynamic testing of sequential software. A practicable number of test cases is generated by using the boundary-interior path testing strategy and by dividing the test units into test segments (program fragments composed of one statement or a sequence of statements). The size of the test segments can be adjusted by means of a parameter, i.e. the thoroughness of the test coverage can be adapted to the needs of the tester. The selection of test cases is performed by constructing path-classes for each test segment. The coverage criteria constructed by means of our approach (test segment coverage criteria) are fulfilled if at least one path from each path-class is covered. A validation of our approach is given by comparing the fault detection capabilities of test segment coverage criteria with the fault detection capabilities of branch testing, multiple-condition testing, LCSAJ testing and all-uses testing using n test cases for each item (e.g. branch) to be covered. The comparison demonstrates that, compared with the other testing criteria, greater fault detection probabilities can be achieved if a test segment coverage criterion is used.