Software testing is an inevitable phase in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). It plays a vital role in ensuring the quality of the product. Testing can be performed on requirement, design and code. Traditional test case generation approaches majorly focuses on designing and implementation models, as a huge percentage of errors in the software are caused due to the lack of understanding in the early phases. So, it’s advisory to follow testing in the initial phase in SDLC as most of the errors/faults can be eliminated and can be prevented without disseminating to the next phase. So, testing must not be secluded to a single phase alone in SDLC. In software testing, test case generation is the fundamental and challenging part. The major purpose to design test case is to create set of tests that are valuable in validation. Due to the increase in software size, it’s not quite advisable to have the choice as manual testing to test the code as its error prone, complex and time consuming. Automation of testing would help the tester to test effectively and timely. Applications of new techniques improve the test process and cut down the tester’s effort. The proposed work presents a sandwich of black box and white box testing. Design-based testing, a black box approach is implemented, that aids in fixing the errors at initial phase. Unified Modeling Language (UML) Use case diagram, Activity diagram and Sequence Diagram are considered for designing. The code-based generation of test cases, is a white box testing approach, test coverage criteria Modified Condition/Decision Condition (MC/DC) has been used to ensure the maximum coverage of the code during testing phase for generating the test cases. The objective of this paper is to automate the generation of minimal number of test cases required to test a system with maximum coverage by removing the redundant test cases using MC/DC criterion. This present an idea to the beginners of the testing about minimal test cases they necessitate for testing their system.
Empirical Comparison of Black-box Test Case Generation Tools for RESTful APIs
