Prioritized Process Test: An Alternative to Current Process Testing Strategies

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21230%2F19%3A00332629" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21230/19:00332629 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218194019500335" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218194019500335</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0218194019500335" target="_blank" >10.1142/S0218194019500335</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Prioritized Process Test: An Alternative to Current Process Testing Strategies

Original language description

Testing processes and workflows in information and Internet of Things systems is a major part of the typical software testing effort. Consistent and efficient path-based test cases are desired to support these tests. Because certain parts of software system workflows have a higher business priority than others, this fact has to be involved in the generation of test cases. In this paper, we propose a Prioritized Process Test (PPT), which is a model-based test case generation algorithm that represents an alternative to currently established algorithms that use directed graphs and test requirements to model the system under test. The PPT accepts a directed multigraph as a model to express priorities, and edge weights are used instead of test requirements. To determine the test-coverage level of test cases, a test-depth-level concept is used. We compared the presented PPT with five alternatives (i.e. the Process Cycle Test (PCT), a naive reduction of test set created by the PCT, Brute Force algorithm, Set-covering-Based Solution and Matching-based Prefix Graph Solution) for edge coverage and edge-pair coverage. To assess the optimality of the path-based test cases produced by these strategies, we used 14 metrics based on the properties of these test cases and 59 models that were created for three real-world systems. For all edge coverage, the PPT produced more optimal test cases than the alternatives in terms of the majority of the metrics. For edge-pair coverage, the PPT strategy yielded similar results to those of the alternatives. Thus, the PPT strategy is an applicable alternative as it reflects both the required test coverage level and the business priority in parallel.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

<a href="/en/project/TH02010296" target="_blank" >TH02010296: Quality Assurance System for Internet of Things Technology</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

ISSN

0218-1940

e-ISSN

1793-6403

Volume of the periodical

29

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

32

Pages from-to

997-1028

UT code for WoS article

000479114500005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85070308581