Proposal of Execution Paths Indication Method for Integration Testing by Using an Automatic Visualization Tool 'Avis'
Yoshihiro Kita, Tetsuro Katayama, Shigeyuki Tomita · 2011
One of the purposes of integration testing is to verify the validity of each module interface. It is important to verify the construction of programs by whitebox te sting but integration testing must deal with a massive increase in number of execution paths. This paper proposes execution paths indication method for integration testing that abstracts the execution paths covering all modules or all callpairs, and red uces the number of execution paths by using an automatic visualization toolcalled 'Avis' (Automatic Vis ualization Tool for Programs). The execution paths indicated by this method can support the verification of data transfer by arguments and global variables of intermodules. Moreover, the productivity of software te sting is improved by reducing the number of execution paths.