System Testability Assessment and testing with Micro architectures

Abstract

Testing is necessary to ensure software reliability and fidelity. However, testing activities are very expensive and difficult. Micro architectures, such as design patterns and anti-patterns, widely exist in object oriented systems and are recognized as influencing many software quality attributes. Our goal is to identify their impact on system testability and evaluate how they can be leveraged to reduce the testing effort while increasing the system reliability and fidelity. The proposed research aims at contributing to reduce complexity and increase testing efficiency by using micro architectures. We will base our work on the rich existing tools of micro architectures detection and code reverse-engineering.

Keywords- Testing, testability, design patterns, anti-patterns test case generation.