Title
Software Testing Methodology with the Control Flow Analysis
Abstract
Software quality is primarily determined by the quality of the software development process. The goals of software testing are to assess and improve the quality of software. Software testing has proven to be difficult in the absence of design information. Without an adequate understanding of a program's structure, it is difficult to test it properly. Program recognition is a technology that can help testers to recover a program's design and, consequently, make software testing effective. Syntactically, a program is a sequence of statements. If the flow of the program can be recovered and used to analyze the testing paths automatically, then generating test data based on adequate testing criteria will help testers to understand the program structure and efficiently improve the software quality. This paper provides a method for analyzing the control-flow of a program and obtaining to the original program structure. An approach to analyzing the testing paths automatically to test every branch of a program is provided. The proposed method defines a number of command types and test data generating rules. An algorithm to scan pro-ram and analysis testing paths is also provided. This will allow testers to recover a progam's design and understand the software structure to assist software maintenance.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2005
JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
software quality,software testing,program recognition,automatic testing,reverse engineering
Field
DocType
Volume
System integration testing,Software engineering,Computer science,Algorithm,Regression testing,Non-regression testing,White-box testing,Software reliability testing,Software construction,Software verification and validation,Dynamic program analysis,Distributed computing
Journal
21
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
1016-2364
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
20
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wen C. Pai1143.20
Chi-Ming Chung2479.43
Ching-Tang Hsieh313720.10
Chun-chia Wang47816.05
Ying-Hong Wang53510.07