Grey-Box Technique of Software Integration Testing Based on Message

TanLi, Mengqing; Ying, Zhang; Wang, Yulin; Jiang, Yan

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/2025/1/012096

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“…For GUI software, we have found that the "Sheet/Form" can be taken as the basic unit and start point for software unit testing, and it has been verified by factual practice including grey-box testing [10], in which all "Controls" in a sheet should be considered as a whole subject together even if there are data exchanging each other. However, following aspects must be paid attention, including 1) the programmer should finish all tasks of GUI layout and coding of a "Sheet/Form" before it is submitted to cross-testing.…”

Section: Start Point Of Unit Testing For Gui Softwarementioning

confidence: 86%

“…Further, as the key content of software testing activity, the test suite construction should be considered with more concern, so previous work [6] on test suite construction of smoke test has shown the magnificence of data-driven in engineering application software. And a more recent study [10] has provided the constructing method of grey-box for test suite of baseline package.…”

Section: Related Literature and Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this new organizing architecture, team manager focuses on the drawing and execution of testing standard, testing strategies and methods, besides routine of workload arranging and work checking including key sampling doubling as independent tester. It implies that three or four people may construct a test team with our experience, and this team will run with good efficiency [10] [12]. As such, the testing activity between pair-wise cooperators may be called "cross-testing", and that of acting key testing may be called "independent-testing".…”

Section: New Organization For Unit Testing Embedding "Pair-wise" Modementioning

confidence: 99%

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Architecture and Methodology of Unit Testing Embedding Pair-Wise Mode for Small Team

TanLi¹,

Zhang²,

Wang³

2022

JSEA

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In this paper, the new organization for unit testing embedding pair-wise mode is proposed with the core thought focused on the cooperation of programmer and tester by "cross-testing". The typical content of unit testing for the new organizing mode should have three aspects, including self-checking, cross-testing and independent-testing. For cross-testing, executing "pair-wise" mode, mainly tackles data testing, function testing and state testing, which function testing must be done by details and state testing must be considered for completeness. With the specializing of independent-testing, it should be taken as more rigid testing without arbitrariness. Consequently, strategy and measure are addressed for data testing focusing on boundary testing and function/state testing. And organizing method of procedure and key points of tackling unit testing are investigated for the new organizing mode. In order to assess the validity of our study and approach, a series of actual examples are demonstrated for GUI software. The result indicates that the execution of unit testing for the new organizing mode is effective and applicable.

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Section: Start Point Of Unit Testing For Gui Softwarementioning

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Section: Related Literature and Workmentioning

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confidence: 99%

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Architecture and Methodology of Unit Testing Embedding Pair-Wise Mode for Small Team

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Zhang²,

Wang³

2022

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“…Hence, in order to decrease the test number of integrated routes, we proposed a measure to deal with this problem, and it is the testing strategy of "Grey-box approach" [7]. In the "Grey-box approach", the pole for output of testing information is inserted into the map function, and for a process of software function with m activating event and n handling routes, we firstly test the correctness of the front part with white-box method, i.e.…”

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“…So, against the difficulty of the problem of GUI software testing, by summarizing from home and abroad [8] [9] especially from our software testing practice, we proposed that the "Triple-step method" based on "Sheet/Form" to deal with the problem of unit testing of GUI software [2] which details will be discussed in this paper, and the "Grey-box approach" to dispose the problem of integration testing of GUI software [7] which specific examples will be demonstrated in the following.…”

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Strategy and Methodology of Integration Testing for GUI Software

TanLi,

Xiao,

Zhang

2023

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In this paper, by means of effective testing practices, main strategies of integration testing for GUI software, including differentiating strategy for distinguished system, strategy of personnel organization, incremental testing strategy based on baseline version, testing strategy of circulating loop through the whole life, and the strategy of test suite construction, were briefly investigated. Moreover, for the code analysis, the FTA (Fault Tree analysis) is proposed to deal with the software change in regression testing. For test suite constructing, the constructing methods for baseline version and the incremental change are deeply discussed, in which main points focus on the testing strategy based on "Sheet/Form", the "Grey-box approach" for integration testing process, and the application of the improved STD (State Transform Diagram) in state testing. At the same time, the suite construction of integration testing for two types, including small scale program and large scale software, is analyzed and discussed in detail. For testing execution, the specific method based on "Cross-testing" is investigated. Concurrently, by a lot of examples, all results of testing activity indicate that these strategies and methods are useful and fitted to integration testing for GUI software.

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Guideline of Test Suite Construction for GUI Software Centered on Grey-Box Approach

TanLi¹,

Xiao²,

Zhang³

2023

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In this paper, the test suite construction for GUI (Graphical User Interface) software may be executed centered on grey-box approach with the prior test design of window access controls for unit testing, including front-end method of white box and follow-up black box method for integration testing. Moreover, two key opinions are proposed for the test suite construction for GUI software, the first one is that the "Triple-step method" should be used for unit testing with the prior disposing of data boundary value testing of input controls, and another one is that the "Grey-box approach" should be applied in integration testing for GUI software with necessary testing preparation in the precondition. At the same time, the testing of baseline version and the incremental testing should be considered for the test case construction to coordinate with the whole evolution of software product today. Additionally, all our opinion and thought are verified and tested with a typical case of GUI software-PQMS (Product Quality Monitoring Software/System), and results indicate that these methods and specific disposing are practical and effective.

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Grey-Box Technique of Software Integration Testing Based on Message

Cited by 4 publications

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Architecture and Methodology of Unit Testing Embedding Pair-Wise Mode for Small Team

Architecture and Methodology of Unit Testing Embedding Pair-Wise Mode for Small Team

Strategy and Methodology of Integration Testing for GUI Software

Guideline of Test Suite Construction for GUI Software Centered on Grey-Box Approach

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