Towards measurement of testability of concurrent object-oriented programs using fault insertion: a preliminary investigation

Author

Ghosh, Sudipto

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

17

Lastpage

25

Abstract

There is a lack of methods and techniques for measuring testability of concurrent object-oriented programs. Current theory and practice for testing sequential programs do not usually apply to concurrent systems. An approach towards measuring the testability of concurrent Java programs is proposed in this paper. The key idea is to take a program and insert faults that are related to the concurrency aspects. The approach is based on two methods: (1) mutation of the program based on keywords, and (2) creation of conflict graphs based on static analysis of the code.

Keywords

Java; graph theory; object-oriented programming; parallel programming; program debugging; program diagnostics; program testing; concurrent Java programs; concurrent object-oriented programs; concurrent systems; conflict graphs; fault insertion; keywords; program mutation; program testability; software testing; static analysis; Concurrent computing; Genetic mutations; Java; Probes; Sequential analysis; Software measurement; Software testing; System testing; Timing; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, 2002. Proceedings. Second IEEE International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1793-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCAM.2002.1134101

Filename

1134101