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Visualisation of Test Coverage for Conformance Tests of Low Level Communication Protocols

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Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2010)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 6277))

Abstract

Testing is a process detecting errors in the design of software and hardware. Tests can normally not prove the correctness of programs or hardware, since they usually form only a small subset of all possible inputs or situations. Therefore, test cases should be chosen carefully and should cover the set or space of possible inputs or situations as broadly as possible. Thus, test coverage is one of the crucial question in testing.

In this paper, we focus on conformance test for low level communication protocols like FlexRay or LIN as they are found very often in cars. These conformance tests are usually defined by choosing specific values for a larger number of variables. In this paper, we propose a method that can visualise the test cases in comparison to all possible situation and provides important information about the test coverage.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Salzdahlumer Str. 46/48, D-38302, Wolfenbüttel, Germany

    Katharina Tschumitschew & Frank Klawonn

  2. C&S group GmbH, Am Exer 19c, D-38302, Wolfenbüttel, Germany

    Nils Obermöller & Wolfhard Lawrenz

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  1. Katharina Tschumitschew
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  1. School of Engineering, The Parade, Cardiff University, CF24 3AA, Cardiff, UK

    Rossitza Setchi

  2. Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering, BUckingham Building, Lion Terrace, University of Portsmouth, PO1 3HE, Portsmouth, UK

    Ivan Jordanov

  3. KES International, 145-157 St. John Street, EC1V 4PY, London, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  4. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Mawson Lakes Campus, 5095, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Tschumitschew, K., Klawonn, F., Obermöller, N., Lawrenz, W. (2010). Visualisation of Test Coverage for Conformance Tests of Low Level Communication Protocols. In: Setchi, R., Jordanov, I., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6277. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15390-7_25

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