Application of Pairwise Testing into BWDM which is a Test Case Generation Tool for the VDM++ Specification

Authors
Tetsuro Katayama1, *, Futa Hirakoba1, Yoshihiro Kita2, Hisaaki Yamaba1, Kentaro Aburada1, Naonobu Okazaki1
1Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Miyazaki, 1-1 Gakuen-kibanadai nishi, Miyazaki 889-2192, Japan
2School of Computer Science, Tokyo University of Technology, 1404-1 Katakuramachi, Hachioji City, Tokyo 192-0982, Japan
*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
Corresponding Author
Tetsuro Katayama
Received 15 October 2018, Accepted 22 November 2018, Available Online 10 December 2019.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.k.191202.001
Keywords
Software testing; boundary value analysis; pairwise testing; formal methods; VDM++; PICT
Abstract
Verification tool for Vienna Development Method (BWDM) is a test case generation tool for the VDM++ specification. The existing BWDM could cause a combinatorial explosion of the generated test cases. To reduce the number of test cases, there is Pairwise Independent Combinatorial Testing Tool (PICT): a pairwise testing tool. We apply pairwise testing into BWDM. Here, BWDM cannot call PICT library directly. Hence, we have developed PICT-wrapper. It is an interface to connect PICT and BWDM. The extended BWDM eliminate the possibility of the combinatorial explosion.
Copyright
© 2019 The Authors. Published by ALife Robotics Corp. Ltd.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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