• DocumentCode
    2183208
  • Title

    A modular tool for automated coverage in software testing

  • Author

    Díaz, Eugenia ; Tuya, Javier ; Blanco, Raquel

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Oviedo Univ., Spain
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    19-21 Sept. 2003
  • Firstpage
    241
  • Lastpage
    246
  • Abstract
    Software testing is an expensive and difficult process which need much time. For this reason, the existence of tools that allow to decrease this effort is very important. Our tool automatically generates test cases in order to obtain branch coverage in software testing from a source code. All process is automatic (source code instrumentation and test cases generation) and therefore the total time used in software testing is reduced. We describe the modules of the tool and present the result we have obtained compared the needed time to generate the test cases with manual instrumentation and the needed time with an automatic process.
  • Keywords
    program compilers; program testing; software tools; automated software testing coverage; automatical test case generation; branch coverage; manual instrumentation; modular tool; source code instrumentation; Automatic generation control; Automatic testing; Automation; Computer science; Costs; Flow graphs; Instruments; Programming; Software quality; Software testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Software Technology and Engineering Practice, 2003. Eleventh Annual International Workshop on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2218-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/STEP.2003.2
  • Filename
    1372154