Structured Testing - McCabe and Associates

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5.3 Complexity and reliability........................................................................................... 34
5.4 Structured testing example.......................................................................................... 34
5.5 Weak structured testing ............................................................................................... 37
5.6 Advantages of automation........................................................................................... 38
5.7 Critical software.......................................................................................................... 39
6 The Baseline Method....................................................41
6.1 Generating a basis set of paths.................................................................................... 41
6.2 The simplified baseline method .................................................................................. 41
6.3 The baseline method in practice.................................................................................. 42
6.4 Example of the baseline method ................................................................................. 44
6.5 Completing testing with the baseline method ............................................................. 46
7 Integration Testing........................................................47
7.1 Integration strategies ................................................................................................... 47
7.2 Combining module testing and integration testing ..................................................... 48
7.3 Generalization of module testing criteria.................................................................... 49
7.4 Module design complexity.......................................................................................... 50
7.5 Integration complexity ................................................................................................ 54
7.6 Incremental integration ............................................................................................... 57
8 Testing Object-Oriented Programs .............................59
8.1 Benefits and dangers of abstraction ............................................................................ 59
8.2 Object-oriented module testing................................................................................... 60
8.3 Integration testing of object-oriented programs.......................................................... 61
8.4 Avoiding unnecessary testing...................................................................................... 65
9 Complexity Reduction ..................................................67
9.1 Actual complexity and realizable complexity............................................................. 67
9.2 Removing control dependencies ................................................................................. 71
9.3 Trade-offs when reducing complexity ........................................................................ 74
10 Essential Complexity....................................................79
10.1 Structured programming and maintainability ........................................................... 79
10.2 Definition of essential complexity, ev(G) ................................................................. 80
10.3 Examples of essential complexity............................................................................. 81