Mutation Testing Applied to Validate Specifications Based on Statecharts

  • Authors:
  • Sandra Camargo Pinto Ferraz Fabbri;José Carlos Maldonado;Tatiana Sugeta;Paulo Cesar Masiero

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ISSRE '99 Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The establishment of a low-cost, effective testing and validation strategy has been pursued by many researchers at the program level as well as at the specification level. The application of Mutation Testing for validating specifications based on Statecharts is proposed. A mutation operator set for Statecharts ? one of the crucial points for effectively applying Mutation Testing ? is defined; in this scope these operators can be taken as a fault model. We also provide strategies to abstract the statecharts components according to different Statecharts features that may comprise the testing and validation activity aims, providing is this way mechanisms for the establishment of an incremental, hierarchical, mutation-based testing strategy. Implementation and functional aspects of PROTEUM/ST, a tool currently under development, are also presented.