Software Testing Techniques: Presented To Prof. DR. Aqil Burnee & Sir. Zain Abbas

Software Testing Techniques
Presented to
Prof. DR. Aqil Burnee

&
Sir. Zain Abbas
White-Box
Testing
... our goal is to ensure that all
statements and conditions have
been executed at least once ...
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 White box testing (Glass Box Testing),
requires programming skills to identify all
paths through the software.
 The tester chooses test case inputs to exercise

paths through the code and determines the
appropriate outputs.
 white box testing is applicable at the unit,

integration and system levels of the
software testing process.
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 It is typically applied to the unit. While it
normally tests paths within a unit, it can
also test paths between units during
integration, and between subsystems
during a system level test.
 For example: In electrical hardware testing,

every node in a circuit may be probed and
measured.
Types of White Box Technique
Typical white box test design techniques
include:
 Control flow testing

 Data flow testing
 Branch Testing
Need Of White Box
Testing
logic errors and incorrect assumptions
are inversely proportional to a path's
execution probability
we often believe

that a path is not
likely to be executed; in fact, reality is
often counter intuitive
typographical errors are random; it's
likely that untested paths will contain
some
Basis path testing
 Basis path testing is a hybrid between path
testing and branch testing:
Path Testing: Testing designed to execute all
or selected paths
through a computer program
Branch Testing: Testing designed to execute
each outcome of
each decision point in a computer program
Basis Path Testing:
 Testing that fulfills the requirements of
branch testing & also tests all of the
independent paths that could be used to
construct any arbitrary path through the
computer program.
 We can say that it is the execution of all

possible blocks in a program.
 To verify the execution of every statement in

that program.
Basis Path Testing:
 This method enables the designer to derive
a logical complexity measure of a
procedural design and use it as a guide for
defining a basis set of execution paths. Test
cases that exercise the basis set are
guaranteed to execute every statement in
the program at least once during testing.
Basis Path Testing:
 Step for Progam Runing:
 prepare program depending on design
document.
 Draw flow graph for that program.
 calculate cyclomatic complexity.(No of
Independent paths in that program)
 Run program more than one time to cover
each Independent
 path execution.
Basis Path
Testing First, we compute the cyclomatic
complexity:
number of simple decisions + 1

or
Number of predicate nodes contained
in flow graph (G) + 1
In this case, V(G) = 4
Cyclomatic
Complexity
A number of industry studies have indicated
that the higher V(G), the higher the probability
of errors.
modules
V(G)
modules in this range are
more error prone
Basis Path
Testing Next, we derive the
independent paths:
1
Since V(G) = 4,
2 there are four paths
Path 1: 1,2,3,6,7,8
3
4
5 6
Path 2: 1,2,3,5,7,8
Path 3: 1,2,4,7,8
Path 4: 1,2,4,7,2,4,...7,8
7
Finally, we derive test cases to exercise these
8 paths.
Basis Path Testing
Notes you don't need a flow chart,
but the picture will help when
you trace program paths
count each simple logical test,
compound tests count as 2 or
more
basis path testing should be
applied to critical modules
Graph Matrices
 To develop a software tool that assists in basis path
testing, a data structure, called a “graph matrix”. Can
be quite useful.
 A graph matrix is a square matrix whose size (i.e.,
number of rows and columns) is equal to the number
of nodes on a flow graph
 Each row and column corresponds to an identified
node, and matrix entries correspond to connections
(an edge) between nodes.
 By adding a link weight to each matrix entry, the
graph matrix can become a powerful tool for
evaluating program control structure during testing
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Prof. DR. Aqil Burnee

 The tester chooses test case inputs to exercise

 white box testing is applicable at the unit,

 For example: In electrical hardware testing,

 Control flow testing

 We can say that it is the execution of all

 To verify the execution of every statement in

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