Abstract |
Automatic functional testing is a potentially effective
technique for software reliability, but it has been a
challenge due to the difficulties in automatically deriving
adequate test cases and test oracle from informal or
semi-formal specifications that are often used in practice.
This paper puts forward a decompositional approach to
automatic test case generation on the basis of
model-based formal specifications. The approach offers
a functional scenario-based test strategy, a set of test
case generation criteria, a set of automatic test case
generation algorithms, and a well-defined test oracle
for automatic test result analysis. A small experiment
on the application of the approach is presented, and
the result shows that the approach can achieve a higher
statement coverage of programs than random testing. |