A Technique for Generating Optimized System Test Suites

C.E. Williams and T. Kratschmer (USA)

Keywords

Software Design and Development, Software Testing

Abstract

As systems deliver increasingly large sets of functional capabilities, developing efficient and effective test cases for testing these capabilities can be a challenging task. We present a representation based on standard UML use cases which can be used for testing system functionality. The representation is called a Constrained Use Case Flow Graph (CUCFG.) We describe an approach for optimizing a CUCFG and show how to generate test cases from the optimized graph. Finally, we present a case study of the technique based on its use in testing a data analysis sys tem.

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