SoftTest: a framework for software testing of Java programs

Abstract

Producing reliable and robust software has become one of the most important software development concerns in recent years. Testing is a process by which software quality can be assured through the collection of information about software. While testing can improve software reliability, current tools typically are inflexible and have high over-heads, making it challenging to test large software projects. In this paper, we describe a new scalable and flexible framework, called SoftTest, for testing Java programs with a novel path-based approach to coverage testing. We describe an initial implementation of the framework for branch coverage testing and demonstrate the feasibility of our approach.