Distributed environment integrating tools for software testing

Abstract

This work is devoted to problems of testing many programs using various testing tools of different origin. We present a distributed system, called Tester, which manages and automates testing process. The system is based on client-server architecture and integrates testing tools, including commercial tools, open-source and own applications. It uses repository for storing projects to be tested and database with test results. Different performance issues concerning test automation are discussed and experimentally evaluated. The system was used in mutation testing of C# programs using object-oriented mutation operators, in experiments investigating the relation between line and assembly instruction coverage on the set of C++ programs, and statistic analysis of different program characteristics. © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010.