Assessing, Comparing, and Combining Statechart- based testing and Structural testing: An Experiment

First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2007) Pub Date : 2007-09-20 DOI:10.1109/ESEM.2007.22

S. Mouchawrab, L. Briand, Y. Labiche

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Although models have been proven to be helpful in a number of software engineering activities there is still significant resistance to model-driven development. This paper investigates one specific aspect of this larger problem. It addresses the impact of using statecharts for testing class clusters that exhibit a state-dependent behavior. More precisely, it reports on a controlled experiment that investigates their impact on testing fault-detection effectiveness. Code-based, structural testing is compared to statechart-based testing and their combination is investigated to determine whether they are complementary. Results show that there is no significant difference between the fault detection effectiveness of the two test strategies but that they are significantly more effective when combined. This implies that a cost-effective strategy would specify statechart-based test cases early on, execute them once the source code is available, and then complete them with test cases based on code coverage analysis.

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基于状态图的测试与结构测试的评估、比较与结合:一个实验

尽管模型已经被证明在许多软件工程活动中是有帮助的，但是对模型驱动的开发仍然存在很大的阻力。本文研究了这个更大问题的一个具体方面。它解决了使用状态图测试表现出状态依赖行为的类集群的影响。更准确地说，它报告了一个受控实验，调查了它们对测试故障检测有效性的影响。将基于代码的结构测试与基于状态图的测试进行比较，并研究它们的组合以确定它们是否互补。结果表明，两种测试策略的故障检测效率没有显著差异，但两者结合使用时的检测效率显著提高。这意味着一个经济有效的策略将在早期指定基于状态图的测试用例，在源代码可用时执行它们，然后使用基于代码覆盖率分析的测试用例来完成它们。

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