On the effectiveness of classification trees for test case construction

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 765-775

  Chen, T Y ^a   Poon, P L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Classification hierarchy table; Classification tree method; Software testing; Specification based testing; Test case selection

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION TREE METHOD;

ALGORITHMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 0032207812     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-5849(98)00107-4     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. R. Ferguson, B. Korel, The chaining approach for software test data generation, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 5 (1) (1996) 63-86.
2. B. Korel, Automated test data generation for programs with procedures, in: ISSTA'96: Proceedings of the 1996 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, January 1996, pp. 209-215.
3. J. Sanders, E. Curran, Software Quality: A Framework for Success in Software Development and Support. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1994.
4. T. Chusho, Test data selection and quality estimation based on the concept of essential branches for path testing, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 13 (5) (1987) 509-517.
5. M. Grochtmann, K. Grimm, Classification trees for partition testing, Software Testing, Verification and Reliability 3 (1993) 63-82.
6. T.J. Ostrand, M.J. Balcer, The category-partition method for specifying and generating functional tests, Communications of the ACM 31 (6) (1988) 676-686.
7. T.Y. Chen, M.F. Lau, Two test data selection strategies towards testing of boolean specifications, in: COMPSAC'97. Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference, IEEE Computer Society Press, August 1997, pp. 608-611.
8. J.J. Chilenski, S.P. Miller, Applicability of modified condition/decision coverage to software testing, Software Engineering Journal 9 (5) (1994) 193-200.
9. E.J. Weyuker, T. Goradia, A. Singh, Automatically generating test data from a boolean specification, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 20 (5) (1994) 353-363.
10. R. Weber, EDP Auditing Conceptual Foundations and Practice, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1988.
11. T.Y. Chen, P.L. Poon, S.F. Tang, A systematic method for auditing user acceptance tests, IS Audit and Control Journal 5 (1998) 31-36.
12. T.Y. Chen, P.L. Poon, Classification-hierarchy table: a methodology for constructing the classification tree, in: ASWEC'96: Proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference, IEEE Computer Society Press, July 1996, pp. 93-104.
13. T.Y. Chen, P.L. Poon, Construction of classification trees via the classification-hierarchy table, Information and Software Technology 39 (13) (1997) 889-896.
14. T.Y. Chen, P.L. Poon, Improving the quality of classification trees via restructuring, in: APSEC'96: Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, IEEE Computer Society Press, December 1996, pp. 83-92.