Branch Coverage For Arbitrary Languages Made Easy
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Branch Coverage For Arbitrary Languages Made Easy: Transformation Systems To The Rescue!
by IraBaxter of SemanticDesigns, Inc. http://www.semdesigns.com
Abstract
Branch coverage is an important measure of the
thoroughness of testing. One can easily get tools that
collect this information for mainstream languages (C, Ada)
on mainstream platforms (Solaris, UNIX). Such tools are
difficult to find for less widely used or interpretive
languages (JavaScript?) or languages used on nonstandard
platforms (C in embedded systems).
This paper shows the straightforward result that an
industrial strength source-to-source transformation system
can install test probes in software systems easily. What is
not obvious is that such transformation systems exist. The
consequential good news is that branch coverage testing
tools can be easily built for all kinds of software in all kinds
of execution environments.
Available
-- EelcoVisser - 23 Jan 2002 CategoryPaper