Using Fault Injection to Increase Software Test Coverage (1996)
| Venue: | IN PROC. 7TH INT. SYMP. ON SOFTWARE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING (ISSRE’96 |
| Citations: | 15 - 0 self |
BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{Bieman96usingfault,
author = {James M. Bieman and Daniel Dreilinger and Lijun Lin},
title = {Using Fault Injection to Increase Software Test Coverage},
booktitle = {IN PROC. 7TH INT. SYMP. ON SOFTWARE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING (ISSRE’96},
year = {1996},
pages = {166--174},
publisher = {Society Press}
}
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Abstract
During testing, it is nearly impossible to run all statments or branches of a program. It is especially difficult to test the code used to respond to exceptional conditions. This untested code, often the error recovery code, will tend to be an error prone part of a system. We show that test coverage can be increased through an "assertion violation" technique for injecting software faults during execution. Using our prototype tool, Visual C-Patrol (VCP), we were able to substantially increase test branch coverage in four software systems studied.
