NDLI: Testing strategies for form-based visual programs

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Rothermel, G. Li, L. Burnett, M.
Copyright Year	1997
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, USA (Rothermel, G.)
Abstract	Form based visual programming languages, which include electronic spreadsheets and a variety of research systems, have had a substantial impact on end user computing. Research shows that form based visual programs often contain faults, and that their creators often have unwarranted confidence in the reliability of their programs. Despite this evidence, we find no discussion in the research literature of techniques for testing or assessing the reliability of form based visual programs. The paper addresses this lack. We describe differences between the form based and imperative programming paradigms, and discuss effects these differences have on strategies for testing form based programs. We then present several test adequacy criteria for form based programs, and illustrate their application. We show that an analogue to the traditional "all-uses" dataflow test adequacy criterion is well suited for code based testing of form based visual programs: it provides important error detection ability, and can be applied more easily to form based programs than to imperative programs.
Starting Page	96
Ending Page	107
File Size	1274944
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0818681209
DOI	10.1109/ISSRE.1997.630851
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1997-11-02
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Logic testing Computer science Computer languages Engines Large screen displays Software performance Visual databases Computational modeling Tiles Debugging
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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