NDLI: Residual test coverage monitoring

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Pavlopoulou, C. Young, M.
Copyright Year	1999
Description	Author affiliation: Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA (Pavlopoulou, C.)
Abstract	Structural coverage criteria are often used as an indicator of the thoroughness of testing, but complete satisfaction of a criterion is seldom achieved. When a software product is released with less than 100% coverage, testers are explicitly or implicitly assuming that executions satisfying the remaining test obligations (the residue) are either infeasible or occur so rarely that they have negligible impact on quality. Violation of this assumption indicates shortcomings in the testing process. Monitoring in the deployed environment, even in the beta test phase, is typically limited to error and sanity checks. Monitoring the residue of test coverage in actual use can provide additional useful information, but it is unlikely to be accepted by users unless its performance impact is very small. Experience with a prototype tool for residual test coverage monitoring of Java programs suggests that, at least for statement coverage, the simple strategy of removing all probes except those corresponding to the residue of coverage testing reduces execution overhead to acceptably low levels.
Sponsorship	IEEE Comput. Soc. Tech. Council on Software Eng.
Starting Page	277
Ending Page	284
File Size	910300
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1581130740
ISSN	02705257
DOI	10.1145/302405.302637
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1999-05-22
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
Subject Keyword	Software testing System testing Quality assurance Feedback Computerized monitoring Software quality Java Probes Instruments Performance evaluation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Software

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