An investigation into effective test coverage

Abstract

Metric for coverage test addresses certain structures of the test program to infer on the test complexity. In our work we explore a popular metric in unit testing namely definition-use, and analyse the evolution of test criteria defined within du testing. We analyse examples to describe subsumption and ordering in the set of criteria, and strength and weakness of one criteria with another. We examine a test metric to infer on coverage and adequacy of testing achieved through it using Weyuker’s set of properties. We enumerate a list of desirables those we thought contributed the effective structure in test coverage metric.