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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2012.17.3.529

Automatic Generation Method of Exceptional Test Cases for improving User Requirement Quality on Broadcast Receiver Software  

Choi, In-Hwa (Department of Multimedia, Seoul Women's University)
Cho, Min-Ju (Department of Multimedia, Seoul Women's University)
Paik, Jong-Ho (Department of Multimedia, Seoul Women's University)
Hwang, Jun (Department of Multimedia, Seoul Women's University)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.17, no.3, 2012 , pp. 529-539 More about this Journal
Abstract
Testing is an important part of quality control in the software life cycle. One of the most important issues in the software testing is to generate the appropriate test cases. Generally, the software can be tested based on product understanding. However, it is not easy to create test cases that can ensure the quality of the software according to the clients' request. Especially, it is difficult to create test cases for abnormal or exceptional situations. In this paper, we present a novel approach to generate exceptional test cases at the design level of UML model. Furthermore, we describe the results of actual experiment where DAB(Digital Audio Broadcasting) parsing program is tested with previous method and also with the proposed method. The results implies that our proposed method of generating test cases for exceptional situations detect more faults than that of previous method by 7.08%.
Keywords
exceptional test case; generating test cases; testing; DAB test;
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