Multiview visualization of software testing results

Abstract

Software visualization can play a vital role in reducing testing efforts. It can be utilized to help testers in understanding the testing status of the code. This paper proposes a visualization technique to model the results of test cases that applied on object oriented code elements. The proposed visualization help testers to understand and to keep track on test cases and their tested code elements. Five views are proposed to cover different code levels; method, class, package, UML and system. A tool has been developed to automatically manage the software testing process and to generate the data model for the proposed visualizations. The evaluation results showed that the proposed views are useful and helpful in understanding the testing results.