Gregory M. Kapfhammer

A Family of Test Adequacy Criteria for Database-Driven Applications

Gregory M. Kapfhammer and Mary Lou Soffa. A Family of Test Adequacy Criteria for Database-Driven Applications. In the Proceedings of the European Software Engineering Conference and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Helsinki, Finland, September 2003. (ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award)

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Abstract

Although a software application always executes within a particular environment, current testing methods have largely ignored these environmental factors. Many applications execute in an environment that contains a database. In this paper, we propose a family of test adequacy criteria that can be used to assess the quality of test suites for database-driven applications. Our test adequacy criteria use dataflow information that is associated with the entities in a relational database. Furthermore, we develop a unique representation of a database-driven application that facilitates the enumeration of database interaction associations. These associations can reflect an application's definition and use of database entities at multiple levels of granularity. The usage of a tool to calculate intraprocedural database interaction associations for two case study applications indicates that our adequacy criteria can be computed with an acceptable time and space overhead.

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