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Department of Computer Science & Computer Engineering

Topic:   Towards Describing Black-Box Testing Methods as Atomic Rules
Speaker:   Tafline Murnane
Date:   20-06-2005
Time:   03:00 AM
Venue:   Hooper LT
Abstract:   Ideally, all black-box testing methods should be interpreted in the same way by different testers, regardless of their prior knowledge or experience. In reality however, inconsistencies and ambiguities in the original descriptions of these methods may lead to differing interpretations and, ultimately, varying test set quality. We propose that these issues can be solved by decomposing these methods into Atomic Rules that individually select test data and construct test cases. This approach has initially been validated against a number of worked examples to demonstrate that the test cases that are derivable by two classic methods (Equivalence Partitioning and Boundary Value Analysis) are also derivable by the Atomic Rules approach. In addition, a pilot experiment has been conducted to determine whether Atomic Rules are simpler to learn and use. The Atomic Rules approach also enables method tailoring and may simplify method comparison. This is a presentation of a paper that is to be presented at the 29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2005), University of Edinburgh, Scotland, July 26th to 28th, 2005. Authored by Tafline Murnane, Richard Hall and Karl Reed of La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia.
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