Code coverage is one of the most important aspects of software testing, which helps software engineers to understand which portion of code has been executed using a given test suite throughout the software testing process. Automatic testing tools are widely utilized to provide testing coverage metrics in order to gauge the quality of software, but these tools may have some shortcomings such as the difference among the values of code coverage metric of a given program using different code coverage tools. Therefore, we designed and performed a controlled experiment to investigate whether these tools have a significant difference among the measured values of coverage metric or not. We collected the coverage data that consist of branch, line, statement, and method coverage metrics. Statistically, our findings show that there is a significant difference of code coverage results among the code coverage tools in terms of branch and method coverage metrics.
목차
Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Background and Related Work 2.1. Comparison among Code Coverage Tools 2.2. Metrics for Evaluating Code Coverage Tools 3. Software Testing Coverage 3.1. Testing Coverage 3.2. Software Testing Tools 4. Empirical Study 4.1. Objects of Analysis 4.2. Variables and Measures 4.3. Experiment Setup and Procedure 5. Data and Analysis 5.1. Analysis of Results for Branch Coverage 5.2. Analysis of Results for Line Coverage 5.3. Analysis of Results for Statement Coverage 5.4. Analysis of Results for Method Coverage 5.5. Threats to Validity 6. Discussion 7. Conclusion and Future Work References
보안공학연구지원센터(IJSEIA) [Science & Engineering Research Support Center, Republic of Korea(IJSEIA)]
설립연도
2006
분야
공학>컴퓨터학
소개
1. 보안공학에 대한 각종 조사 및 연구
2. 보안공학에 대한 응용기술 연구 및 발표
3. 보안공학에 관한 각종 학술 발표회 및 전시회 개최
4. 보안공학 기술의 상호 협조 및 정보교환
5. 보안공학에 관한 표준화 사업 및 규격의 제정
6. 보안공학에 관한 산학연 협동의 증진
7. 국제적 학술 교류 및 기술 협력
8. 보안공학에 관한 논문지 발간
9. 기타 본 회 목적 달성에 필요한 사업
간행물
간행물명
International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications
간기
월간
pISSN
1738-9984
수록기간
2008~2016
등재여부
SCOPUS
십진분류
KDC 505DDC 605
이 권호 내 다른 논문 / International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications Vol.8 No.5