Experimental Evaluation of Coverage Criteria for FSM-based Testing

  • Adenilso Simão USP
  • Alexandre Petrenko CRIM
  • Jose Carlos Maldonado USP

Resumo


Para planejar a atividade de teste, os testadores devem determinar uma estratégia, incluindo um critério de cobertura, que possua uma boa relação de custo/benefício referente aos recursos disponíveis e os objetivos de teste. Propriedades teóricas conhecidas dos critérios de cobertura nem sempre são suficientes e, dessa forma, dados empíricos são necessários. Neste artigo, são apresentados resultados de uma avaliação experimental de vários critérios de cobertura usados comumente para Máquinas de Estados Finitos.

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15/10/2007
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SIMÃO, Adenilso; PETRENKO, Alexandre; MALDONADO, Jose Carlos. Experimental Evaluation of Coverage Criteria for FSM-based Testing. In: SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRO DE ENGENHARIA DE SOFTWARE (SBES), 21. , 2007, João Pessoa. Anais [...]. Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2007 . p. 359-374. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbes.2007.21316.