Understandability Assessment of Concrete and Parametric Test Cases with Respect to Time and Correctness Ratio Measures
Touseef Tahir, Ali Jafar, Sobia Zaheer, Muhammad Khurram Afzal, Munib Ahmad, Jawad Shafi · 2013
The Parametric (Automated) testing is considered as potential replacement for most of the concrete (manual) testing. Software Understandability is one of the major factors that influence the use of concrete and parametric test cases. It affects the duration (time) and the correctness ratio of software testing process. It is harder to measure understandability as it depends on various factors like human cognitive behavior, coding conventions and code complexity. This paper presents the extension of “Understandability of Concrete versus Parametric Test Cases”. We have analyzed the hypothesis i.e. “parameterized test cases are harder to understand than concrete test cases and thus would lead to overall tests that are harder to understand” with modifications in experimental design and variables. The comparative analysis of the experiments is used to reach a conclusion.