DocumentCode
3032008
Title
ReqsCov: A Tool for Measuring Test-Adequacy over Requirements
Author
Staats, Matt ; Deng, Weijia ; Rajan, Ajitha ; Heimdahl, Mats P E ; Woodham, Kurt
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
fYear
2008
fDate
15-19 Sept. 2008
Firstpage
499
Lastpage
500
Abstract
When creating test cases for software, a common approach is to create tests that exercise requirements. Determining the adequacy of test cases, however, is generally done through inspection or indirectly by measuring structural coverage of an executable artifact (such as source code or a software model). We present ReqsCov, a tool to directly measure requirements coverage provided by test cases. ReqsCov allows users to measure Linear Temporal Logic requirements coverage using three increasingly rigorous requirements coverage metrics: naive coverage, antecedent coverage, and Unique First Cause coverage. By measuring requirements coverage, users are given insight into the quality of test suites beyond what is available when solely using structural coverage metrics over an implementation.
Keywords
formal specification; program testing; program verification; software metrics; temporal logic; ReqsCov; antecedent coverage; linear temporal logic; naive coverage; requirements coverage measurement; software inspection; software metrics; software test case; software tool; unique first cause coverage; Computer science; Contracts; Inspection; Logic testing; NASA; Software measurement; Software systems; Software testing; Software tools; System testing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Automated Software Engineering, 2008. ASE 2008. 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on
Conference_Location
L´Aquila
ISSN
1938-4300
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-2187-9
Electronic_ISBN
1938-4300
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ASE.2008.90
Filename
4639383
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