Automating testing by reverse engineering of software documentation

Author

Lutsky, Patricia

Author_Institution

Brandeis Univ., Waltham, MA, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

14-16 Jul 1995

Firstpage

8

Lastpage

12

Abstract

Reverse engineering of software documentation can play an important role in automating software testing. Since testers often compare the operation of a software system to the expected behavior as described in a document, information extraction from texts can provide valuable input to automated test systems. This paper describes the SIFT (Specification Information From Text) document parser and its use in generating tests for two different software systems: the OpenVMS operating system and the XCON expert configuration system

Keywords

automatic test software; computer aided software engineering; document handling; program testing; reverse engineering; system documentation; OpenVMS operating system; SIFT document parser; Specification Information From Text; XCON expert configuration system; automatic software testing; expected behavior; reverse engineering; software documentation; test automation; test generation; text information extraction; Automatic testing; Automation; Data mining; Documentation; Natural languages; Operating systems; Reverse engineering; Software systems; Software testing; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reverse Engineering, 1995., Proceedings of 2nd Working Conference on

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-711-43

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCRE.1995.514688

Filename

514688