• International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.53-66
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• 2007

This paper proposes a new non-homogeneous Poisson process software reliability growth model based on the coverage information. The new model incorporates the coverage information in the fault detection process by assuming that only the faults in the covered constructs are detectable. Since the coverage growth behavior depends on the testing strategy, the fault detection process is first modeled for the general testing strategy and then realized for the uniform testing. Finally the model for the uniform testing is empirically evaluated by applying it to real data sets.

• International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2003

Many software reliability growth models (SRGM's) based on a nonhomogeneous Poisson process (NHPP) have been proposed by many researchers. Most of the SRGM's which have been proposed up to the present treat the event of software fault-detection in the testing and operational phases as a counting process. However, if the size of the software system is large, the number of software faults detected during the testing phase becomes large, and the change of the number of faults which are detected and removed through debugging activities becomes sufficiently small compared with the initial fault content at the beginning of the testing phase. Therefore, in such a situation, we can model the software fault-detection process as a stochastic process with a continuous state space. In this paper, we propose a new software reliability growth model describing the fault-detection process by applying a mathematical technique of stochastic differential equations of an Ito type. We also compare our model with the existing SRGM's in terms of goodness-of-fit for actual data sets.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.33-40
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• 2008

Traceability has been held as an important factor in testing activities as well as model-driven development. Vertical traceability affords us opportunities to improve manageability from models and test cases to a code in testing and debugging phase. This paper represents a vertical test method which connects a system test level and an integration test level in testing stage by using UML. An experiment how traceability works to effectively focus on error spots has been included by using concrete examples of tracing from models to the code.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.997-1006
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• 2008

This paper proposes a new model by combining an infinite-server queueing model for multi-task processing software system with a perfect debugging model based on Markov process with two types of faults suggested by Lee et al. (2001). We apply this model for module and integration testing in the testing process. Also, we compute several measure, such as the expected number of tasks whose processes can be completed and the task completion probability are investigated under the proposed model.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제26권9호
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• pp.1105-1113
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• 1999

객체 지향 소프트웨어의 확장과 더불어 소프트웨어의 재사용성의 중요도가 부각되면서 소프트웨어를 콤포넌트 단위로 구현하는 추세이다. 따라서 콤포넌트 기반의 소프트웨어 개발에서의 통합 테스트가 중요한 이슈로 떠오르고 있다. 그러나 콤포넌트들의 통합 테스트에 대한 연구는 미흡한 상태이다. 본 논문에서는 UML을 기반으로 체계적인 통합 테스트 모형을 제안하고. 나아가 본 논문에서는 "멀티미디어 정보처리 시스템"의 사례를 본 논문의 콤포넌트 통합 테스트 모형에 적용한 결과를 분석하여 기술한다. 콤포넌트 통합 테스트 모형은 UML(Unified Modeling Language)의 순서도(sequence diagram)와 협력도(collaboration diagram)를 이용하여 전체 시스템에서 UML의 사건흐름을 구성하는 콤포넌트들 사이의 인터페이스 영역에 존재하는 오류들을 추출한다. 그리고 UML을 기반으로 통합 테스트를 수행함으로써, 테스트 준비 작업을 줄이고, 기존의 UML 지원 도구들과 연계하여 테스트 자동화 도구의 구현을 앞당길 수 있다. 또한 시스템의 순차적 흐름 뿐 아니라, 동시에 수행되는 흐름에 대한 정보까지 모두 수용하여 테스트함으로써, 콤포넌트 기반의 분산 환경의 특성에 적합하다. Abstract As the object-oriented approach to software development becomes more mature, software development from pre-existing, independently developed components becomes an important aim of software engineering. Therefore, integration testing becomes an important aspect of component-based software development. However, there has been little work done in the area of the component-based integration testing. In this paper, we propose the "component integration test model" which is based on UML. Furthermore, we describe a case study on "Multimedia Information Processing System" conducted to analyse the result from which our model is applied. Our model extracts the faults, which exist in interfaces of components, using sequence diagram and collaboration diagram of UML(Unified Modeling Language). As our model is based on UML, the preparation effort for testing is reduced and its test-tools can be implemented more easily through linking existing UML tool. And our model accepts the information of concurrent flow represented by collaboration diagram as well as sequential flow, so it is more suitable to component-based distributed environment.based distributed environment.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2008

소프트웨어의 테스트노력 곡선으로서 현재까지는 로지스틱 곡선이 가장 이상적인 것으로 연구되고 있다. 테스트 단계중에 소요되는 테스트노력의 양에 대한 결함 검출비를 현재의 결함 내용에 비례하는 것으로 가정하여 소프트웨어 신뢰도 성장 모델을 비동차 포아송 프로세스(NHPP)로 공식화하되, 이 모델을 이용하여 소프트웨어 신뢰도 척도에 대한 데이터 분석기법을 개발한다. 모든 소프트웨어 개발 환경에서 지금까지 제시된 여러 곡선 중 하나에 의해서 테스트노력 소요 곡선을 표현하는 것은 적절하지 못하다는 것이 밝혀지고 있다. 그러므로, 본 논문에서는 로지스틱 테스트노력 곡선이 소프트웨어의 개발/테스트 노력곡선으로 적절하게 표현될 수 있다는 것과 실제 데이터를 근거로 하여 적용하여서 예측성이 매우 좋은 능력을 가지고 있다는 것을 보이고자 한다.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.164-173
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• 2009

Automotive systems have tended to be equipped with many electronic contents to satisfy safety, comport, convenience, and entertainment services over the past years. As a result, the amount of vehicle embedded software in electrical/electronic(E/E) systems is steadily increasing to manage these requirements. This leads to the traditional, document-based software development in the vehicle embedded systems being increasingly displaced by a model-based development in order to reduce software development time and cost. Due to the application of model-based development, a great evolution is being realized in the aspect of efficiency, but the development is being made without sufficient testing. So, erroneous automotive embedded software may cause serious problems such as car accidents which relate to human safety. Therefore, efficient methods for model-based test and validation are needed to improve software reliability in the stage of embedded software development. This paper presents the model-based development and test method for AUTOSAR embedded software to improve its reliability and safety, and it is demonstrated based on the case study.

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제43권9호
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• pp.953-962
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• 2016

모델 기반 테스팅은 시스템의 행위를 표현하는 모델을 시스템 명세로 활용하여 테스트를 수행하는 기술이다. 자동차, 국방/항공, 의료, 철도, 원자력과 같은 산업 도메인에서는 소프트웨어의 품질 향상을 위해 모델 기반 테스팅과 코드 커버리지 기반 테스팅을 요구하고 있다. 모델 기반 테스팅과 코드 커버리지 기반 테스팅이 모두 요구됨에도 모델과 소스 코드 간의 추상화 수준 차이로 인해 모델 기반 테스팅만으로 높은 코드 커버리지를 달성하는 것이 어려워 모델 기반 테스팅과 코드 커버리지 기반 테스팅이 별도로 수행되어져 왔다. 본 연구에서는 기존의 모델 기반 테스팅의 한계점을 개선하기 위하여 모델 기반 테스팅에서 테스트 모델로서 이용되는 대표적인 모델링 방법 중 하나인 프로토콜 상태 머신을 테스트 모델로서 이용하여 효과적으로 코드 커버리지를 향상시키는 상태 머신 변환 방법을 제안한다. 또한 본 연구에서는 두 시스템을 대상으로 한 사례 연구를 수행하여 제안 방법의 효과성을 분석하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.633-652
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• 2024

Software testing is an important phase as it ensures the software quality. The software testing process comprises of three steps: generation, execution, and evaluation of test cases. Literature claims the usage of single and multiple 'Unified Modeling Language' (UML) diagrams to generate test cases. Using multiple UML diagrams increases test case coverage. However, the existing approaches show limitations in test case generation from UML diagrams. Therefore, in this research study, we propose an approach to generate the test cases using UML State Chart Diagram (SCD), Activity Diagram (AD), and Sequence Diagram (SD). The proposed approach transforms UML diagrams into intermediate forms: SCD Graph, AD Graph, and SD Graph respectively. Furthermore, by integrating these three graphs, a System Testing Graph (STG) is formed. Finally, test cases are identified from STG by using a traversal algorithm such as Depth First Search (DFS) that is an optimization method. The results show that the proposed approach is better compared to existing approaches in terms of coverage and performance. Moreover, the generated test cases have the ability to detect faults at the unit level, integration, and system level testing.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.133-138
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a software reliability growth model (SRGM) based on the testing domain, which is isolated by the executed test cases. This model assumes an imperfect debugging environment in which new faults are introduced in the fault-correction process. We consider that the fault detection rate of NHPP model is changed in the proposed SRGM. We obtain the maximum likelihood estimate, and compare goodness-of-fit with another existing software reliability growth model.