Database-driven software has been widely adopted in many areas of software applications. In this type of software, the database is an integrated part of the system. Traditional testing techniques have focused either on the software or on the databases, but ignored the interactions between the two core components of the system. Recently, the importance of testing database-driven applications has...

Testing is one of the very important component of software development process. Properly generated test sequences may not only locate the defects in software, but also help in reducing the high cost associated with software testing. It is often desired that test sequences should be automatically generated to achieve required test coverage. Automatic test sequence generation is a major problem i...

In diagnosing a failed system, a smart technician would choose tests to be performed based on the context of the situation. Currently, test program sets do not fault-. isolate within the context of a situation. Instead, testing follows a rigid, predetermined, fault-isolation sequence that is based on an embedded fault tree. Current test programs do not tolerate instrument failure and cannot red...

As the complexity of applications and therefore of their testing process grows, the importance of automating the testing activity increases. The testing process includes test case generation, test sequencing, oracle construction, test execution, and results interpretation. Automatic generation of test cases from formal specifications has received considerable attention. Relatively little work h...