The systematic practice of test design automation

Abstract

This paper proposes more practical guidelines for test case generation extending pairwise techniques including boundary value analysis and equivalence partitioning as a generic analysis technique of factors' values which can affect target features. That is, as a factor's values are also classified and any combination technique of them can be selectively applied, it is possible to create robust test cases which can detect interactive defects among factors. On top of that, single fault based test design can be applied to comprise test cases including invalid values of factors. Also, as defining test oracle and details of each factor's value at test design phase, enormous test efforts which should be always considered to create test oracles or to understand automated test data by testers when testing software can remarkably be removed. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.