NDLI: Enhanced modified condition/decision coverage using exclusive-nor code transformer

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Godboley, S. Prashanth, G.S. Mohapatra, D.P. Majhi, B.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Nat. Inst. of Technol., Rourkela, India (Godboley, S.; Prashanth, G.S.; Mohapatra, D.P.; Majhi, B.)
Abstract	In regulated domains such as aerospace and safety critical domains, software quality assurance is subjected to strict regulations such as the DO-178B standard. MC/DC is a white box software testing criteria aiming to prove all the conditions involved in a predicate that can influence the predicate value in the desired way. Though MC/DC is a coverage criterion, existing automated test data generation approaches like CONCOLIC testing do not support MC/DC. In this paper, we propose an automated technique to generate a test suite that helps in achieving an increase in MC/DC coverage of a program under test. We use code transformation technique which consists of two steps: identification of predicates and generation of empty true-false if-else statements. The empty conditional statements are based on the concepts of exclusive nor (X-NOR) operations. This transformed program is inserted into the CREST TOOL. It drives CREST TOOL to generate test suite and increase the MC/DC coverage. Our technique helps to achieve a significant increase in MC/DC coverage as compared to traditional CONCOLIC testing.
Sponsorship	IEEE Kerala Sect.
Starting Page	524
Ending Page	531
File Size	787104
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467350891
e-ISBN	9781467350907
DOI	10.1109/iMac4s.2013.6526469
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-03-22
Publisher Place	India
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Software testing Computer science Coverage analyzer MC/DC Concolic testing Transforms Logic gates Software Concrete CREST tool Program code transformer
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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