Requirement-based automated black-box test generation

Tahat, Luay; Vaysburg, B.; Korel, Bogdan; Bader, Atef

doi:10.1109/cmpsac.2001.960658

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“…However, some recent studies indicate that the use of rigorous and welldocumented ST is not very common [2], [3], [18]. One reason stated by Itkonen [15] was that documenting every scenario in a test case being very time consuming and hence testers requiring more time in writing test cases as compared to actually executing them.…”

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Comparing a Hybrid Testing Process with Scripted and Exploratory Testing: An Experimental Study with Practitioners

Shah

Alvi²,

Gencel

et al. 2014

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Abstract. This study presents an experimental study comparing the testing quality of a Hybrid Testing (HT) process with the commonly used approaches in industry: Scripted Testing (ST) and Exploratory Testing (ET). The study was conducted in an international IT service company in Sweden with the involvement of six experienced testers. Two measures were used for comparison: 1) defect detection effectiveness (DDE) and 2) functionality coverage (FC). The results indicated that HT performed better in terms of DDE than ST and worse than ET. In terms of FC, HT performed better than ET, while no significant differences were observed between the HT and ST. Furthermore, HT performed best for experienced testers, but worse with less experienced testers.

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Comparing a Hybrid Testing Process with Scripted and Exploratory Testing: An Experimental Study with Practitioners

Shah

Alvi²,

Gencel

et al. 2014

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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“…The input section of a test case is a sequence of inputs where each input can also have parameters. We might produce test cases with the aim of achieving a coverage criterion such as transition coverage or state coverage [15]. Transition coverage, for example, requires that the test cases, between them, lead to all transitions of the EFSM being exercised.…”

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An integrated search-based approach for automatic testing from extended finite state machine (EFSM) models

Kalaji

Hierons

Swift

2011

Information and Software Technology

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“…Software testing is the critical process in software development life cycle (SDLC) to detect defects before the product is released. However, software testing is the most resource-consuming phase of SDLC, since approximately 50% of a project schedule is allocated to the testing phase [1], [2].…”

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Influence of confirmation biases of developers on software quality: an empirical study

Çalıklı

Bener

2012

Software Qual J

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The thought processes of people have a significant impact on software quality, as software is designed, developed and tested by people. Cognitive biases, which are defined as deviations of human mind from the laws of logic and mathematics, are likely to cause software defects. However, there is little empirical evidence to date to substantiate this assertion. In this research, we focus on a specific cognitive bias type called confirmation bias, which is defined as the tendency of people to seek for evidence to verify hypotheses rather than seeking for evidence to falsify them. Due to confirmation bias, developers might perform unit tests to make their program work rather than to break. Hence, confirmation bias is believed to be one of the factors that lead to increased software defect density. In this research, we present a metric scheme to explore the impact of developers' confirmation bias on software defect density. In order to estimate effectiveness of our metric scheme in quantification of confirmation bias within the context of software development, we performed an empirical study that addressed the prediction of the defective parts of software. In our empirical study, we used confirmation bias metrics on five datasets obtained from two companies. Our results provide empirical evidence that human thought processes and cognitive aspects deserve further investigation to improve decision making in software development for effective process management and resource allocation.

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Requirement-based automated black-box test generation

Cited by 73 publications

References 17 publications

Comparing a Hybrid Testing Process with Scripted and Exploratory Testing: An Experimental Study with Practitioners

Comparing a Hybrid Testing Process with Scripted and Exploratory Testing: An Experimental Study with Practitioners

An integrated search-based approach for automatic testing from extended finite state machine (EFSM) models

Influence of confirmation biases of developers on software quality: an empirical study

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