Testing embedded software by metamorphic testing: A wireless metering system case study

Author

Kuo, Fei-Ching ; Chen, Tsong Yueh ; Tam, Wing K.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Swinburne Univ. of Technol., Melbourne, VIC, Australia

fYear

2011

fDate

4-7 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

291

Lastpage

294

Abstract

In this paper, we present our experience of testing wireless embedded software. We used a wireless metering system in operation, and its software as a case study to demonstrate how a property-based testing technique, called metamorphic testing, can be used in detecting software failures of this wireless embedded system. Our study shows that a careful design of test environments and selection of system properties will enable us to trace back the cause of failures and help in fault diagnosis and debugging.

Keywords

computerised instrumentation; embedded systems; failure analysis; power engineering computing; power meters; program debugging; program testing; radiotelemetry; debugging; fault diagnosis; metamorphic testing; property-based testing technique; software failure detection; wireless embedded software testing; wireless metering system; Calibration; Embedded software; Meter reading; Radio frequency; Testing; Wireless communication; Wireless communication; embedded systems; software testing and debugging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2011 IEEE 36th Conference on

Conference_Location

Bonn

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-926-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.2011.6115306

Filename

6115306