GOAL-ORIENTED AUTOMATIC TEST CASE GENERATORS FOR MC/DC COMPLIANCY

Emine G. Aydal, Jim Woodcock, Ana Cavalcanti

2007

Abstract

Testing is a crucial phase of the software development process. Certification standards such as DO-178B impose certain steps to be accomplished in testing phase and certain testing coverage criteria to be met in order to certify a software as Level-A software. Modified Condition/Decision Coverage, listed as one of these requirements in DO-178B, is one of the most difficult targets to achieve for testers and software developers. This paper presents the state-of-the-art goal-oriented automatic test case generators and evaluates them in the context of MC/DC satisfaction. It also aims to guide the production of MC/DC-compliant test case generators by pointing out the strengths and weaknesses of the current tools and by highlighting the further expectations.

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G. Aydal E., Woodcock J. and Cavalcanti A. (2007). GOAL-ORIENTED AUTOMATIC TEST CASE GENERATORS FOR MC/DC COMPLIANCY . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8111-06-7, pages 290-295. DOI: 10.5220/0001324002900295


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft07,
author={Emine G. Aydal and Jim Woodcock and Ana Cavalcanti},
title={GOAL-ORIENTED AUTOMATIC TEST CASE GENERATORS FOR MC/DC COMPLIANCY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,},
year={2007},
pages={290-295},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001324002900295},
isbn={978-989-8111-06-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,
TI - GOAL-ORIENTED AUTOMATIC TEST CASE GENERATORS FOR MC/DC COMPLIANCY
SN - 978-989-8111-06-7
AU - G. Aydal E.
AU - Woodcock J.
AU - Cavalcanti A.
PY - 2007
SP - 290
EP - 295
DO - 10.5220/0001324002900295