Arcadia Papers: ABSTRACT
"Integrating Testing Techniques with Process Programming,"
by Debra J. Richardson, Stephanie Leif Aha, and Leon J. Osterweil in
Proceedings of the ACM SIGSoft 89: Third Symposium on Software Testing,
Analysis and Verification,
pages 219-228, Keywest, December 1989.
Abstract
Integration of multiple testing techniques is required to demonstrate
high quality of software. Technique integration has four basic goals:
reduced development costs, incremental testing capabilities, extensive
error detection, and cost-effective application. We are experimenting with
the use of process programming as a mechanism for integrating testing
techniques. Having set out to develop a process that provides adequate
coverage and comprehensive fault detection, we proposed synergistic use
of DataFlow testing and Relay to achieve all four goals. We developed a
testing process program much as we would develop a software product from
requirements through design to implementation and evaluation. We found
process programming to be effective for explicitly integrating the
techniques and achieving the desired synergism. Used in this way, process
programming also mitigates many of the other problems that plague
testing in the software development process.
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