Deriving tests from software architectures

Zhenyi Jin; Jeff Offutt

doi:10.1109/ISSRE.2001.989484

Deriving tests from software architectures

Zhenyi Jin
, Jeff Offutt

Computer Science

University at Albany

ITT Corporation

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Software architectures are intended to describe essential high level structural and behavioral characteristics of the system. Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) describe these characteristics in ways that can be analyzed and manipulated algorithmically. This provides a unique opportunity for deriving tests at the system level. This paper defines formal testing criteria based on architecture relations, which are paths that architectural components use to communicate. The criteria have been applied to a specific ADL. Results front a comparative empirical study on industrial software are presented.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	308-313
Number of pages	6
Journal	Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSRE.2001.989484
State	Published - 2001

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