An estimated method for software testability measurement

Author

Lin, Jin-Chemg ; Lin, Szu-Wen ; Ian-Ho

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Tatung Inst. of Technol., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

1997

fDate

14-18 Jul 1997

Firstpage

116

Lastpage

123

Abstract

Software testability is becoming an important factor to be considered during software development and assessment, especially for critical software. The paper gives software testability, previously defined by Voas (1991, 1992), a new model and measurement which is done before random black-box testing with respect to a particular input distribution. The authors also compared their measurement results with the one simulated according with Voas´s model. It showed that their rough testability estimate provides enough information and will be used as guidelines for software development

Keywords

program testing; safety-critical software; system monitoring; critical software; estimated method; input distribution; random black-box testing; software assessment; software development; software testability measurement; Computer errors; Computer science; Guidelines; Integral equations; Particle measurements; Programming; Software measurement; Software quality; Software safety; Software testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Technology and Engineering Practice, 1997. Proceedings., Eighth IEEE International Workshop on [incorporating Computer Aided Software Engineering]

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7840-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/STEP.1997.615470

Filename

615470