Checking Inside the Black Box: Regression Fault Exposure and Localization Based on Value Spectra Differences

Testing and Model-Checking Techniques for Diagnosis

Black-box testing is a popular technique for assessing the quality of a system. However, in case of a test failure, only little information is available to identify the root-cause of the test failure. In such cases, additional diagnostic tests may help. We present techniques and a methodology for efficiently conducting diagnostic tests based on explicit fault models. For this, we rely on Model-...

Black-box testing using flowgraphs: an experimental assessment of effectiveness and automation potential

A black-box testing strategy based on Zweben et al.’s specification-based test data adequacy criteria is explored. The approach focuses on generating a flowgraph from a component’s specification and applying analogues of white-box strategies to it. An experimental assessment of the fault-detecting ability of test sets generated using this approach was performed for three of Zweben’s criteria us...

Inside the Black Box: Organisational Buying Behaviour and Strategic Purchasing in Healthcare: A Response to Recent Commentary

XML-manipulating test case prioritization for XML-manipulating services

A web service may evolve autonomously, making peer web services in the same service composition uncertain as to whether the evolved behaviors are compatible with its original collaborative agreement. Although peer services may wish to conduct regression testing to verify the agreed collaboration, the source code of the former service may be inaccessible to them. Owing to the black-box nature of...

Test case selection for black-box regression testing of database applications

Context: This paper presents an approach for selecting regression test cases in the context of large-scale, database applications. We focus on a black-box (specification-based) approach, relying on classification tree models to model the input domain of the system under test (SUT), in order to obtain a more practical and scalable solution. We perform an industrial case study where the SUT is a ...