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The research reported in this paper is concerned with the testing of software which is being developed in a structured way. The advantages which accrue from a well structured or modular organisation of software depend upon an ability to independently test a module well before the full development of all the modules with which it communicates. This paper describes a technique (finite state testing) which effectively organises data objects into equivalence classes and exercises a module using a representative of each class. As a technique it has an affinity with both the type checking performed by a conventional compiler and the assertion checking performed by a so-called verifying compiler. It is however a practical technique which has been used in experimental systems and is being incorporated in a prototype program development system.
Author(s): Henderson P, Quarendon P
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: Computing Laboratory Technical Report Series
Year: 1974
Pages: 14
Report Number: 58
Institution: Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/58.pdf
