Paper Info
Title
Assessing testing tools in research and education
Abstract
An evaluation of three software engineering tools based on their use in research and educational environments is presented. The three testing tools are Mothra, a mutation-testing tool, Asset, a dataflow testing tool, and ATAC, a dataflow testing tool. Asset, ATAC, and Mothra were used in research projects that examined relative and general fault-detection effectiveness of testing methods, how good a test set is after functional testing based on program specification, how reliability estimates from existing models vary with the testing method used, and how improved coverage affects reliability. Students used ATAC and Mothra by treating the tools as artifacts and studying them from the point of view of documentation, coding style, and possible enhancements, solving simple problems given during testing lectures, and conducting experiments that supported ongoing research in software testing and reliability. The strengths, weaknesses, and performances of Asset, Mothra, and ATAC are discussed.<>
Year
DOI
Venue
1992
10.1109/52.136170
Software, IEEE  
Keywords
Field
DocType
formal specification,performance evaluation,program testing,software selection,software tools,ATAC,Asset,Mothra,coding style,dataflow testing tool,documentation,education,fault-detection,mutation-testing tool,program specification,software engineering tools,software reliability
Systems engineering,Software engineering,Computer science,Functional testing,Formal specification,Non-regression testing,Software performance testing,Software reliability testing,Dataflow,Software quality,Documentation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
9
3
0740-7459
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
21
2.70
2
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Joseph Robert Horgan11232132.79
Aditya P. Mathur21212122.59