An application of random software testing

Author

Bailey, Marlin A. ; Moyers, Tim E. ; Ntafos, Simeon

Author_Institution

Electrospace Syst. Inc., USA

Volume

3

fYear

1995

fDate

35011

Firstpage

1098

Abstract

Program testing remains the most commonly used method for verifying the reliability of software products. A popular method for integration testing is to develop a test plan based on the system requirements. We discuss some of the shortcomings of this approach and present our experiences with a random testing approach of a telecommunications project (a secure telephone conferencer). Among the benefits of this approach are improved requirements definition, improved fault detection, a simpler approach to system reliability estimation and reduced life-cycle costs

Keywords

program testing; security of data; software reliability; telephone equipment; telephony; fault detection; integration testing; program testing; random software testing; reduced life-cycle costs; requirements definition; secure telephone conferencer; software products reliability; system reliability estimation; system requirements; telecommunications project; test plan; Application software; Computer industry; Computer science; Costs; Fault detection; Life estimation; Reliability; Software testing; Statistical analysis; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 1995. MILCOM '95, Conference Record, IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2489-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.1995.483665

Filename

483665