The Study of the Requirement of Software Testability Based on Causal Analysis

Abstract:

Requirements for software testability is an important basis of design for software design of testability. During the software-testability-design work, a series of software design for testability measures must be taken to make software testing stage less detours, and formulation and implementation of requirements for software testing is an important element. This paper introduces a kind of develop-method of requirements for software testability. According as causal analysis, basing on manifestations of software testability, the method develops appropriate requirements for software testability for software system. Preface The software testability is referred to as a kind of attribute that aims to facilitate the application test and improve the location and correction of software error [. To a certain extent, the software testability can solve some problems facing the software test, such as helping the designer to develop the software that is easier to test, so as to reduce the test difficulty, save more test time and optimize the resource allocation. Therefore, the software testability has stood out as quite an important factor that has a great effect on the cost, time and labor allocation of software test, which are also closely related to the quality of software engineering [. Since the 1990s, the software testability has been widely concerned by the scholars both at home and abroad. According to the relevant literatures collected, the general research direction has been toward the measurement and analysis of the software testability [. It should be noted that a well developed scheme of the requirement of software testability can not only enhance the testability of the target software, but also serve as the evaluation criterion of the testability, which means that it will have special reference to the improvement on the software test [. Based on the casual analysis, this paper has sought to provide a whole set of the requirement of software testability and come up with a real case so as to approach the design issues of the software testability [. 1 The requirement of software testability

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 513-517)
• Pages: 1944-1950
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.513-517.1944
• Online since: February 2014
• Authors: Ye Liu*, Yi Chen Wang
• Keywords: Design Criteria for Software Testability, Develop-Method, Software Testability

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