Comparing Reading and Testing Techniques

This page offers access to lab package (reusable materials) for performing an experiment that compares reading and testing techniques. This experiment was conducted at the University of Kaiserslautern, at the University of Strathclyde, and elsewhere. For more information, please retrieve these papers:

• The technical report about the Kaiserslautern replications (90 pages), available in PDF (329K bytes)
• The overview paper about the Kaiserslautern replications that was presented at ESEC'95 (15 pages), also available in PDF (120K bytes)
• The technical report about the Strathclyde replications (69 pages), also available in PDF (307K bytes)

The following links give direct access to portions of the laboratory package. Sorry, the links do not include the fault descriptions or the example solutions; please contact me directly to obtain those materials. All documents are in PDF (ver 3.0) format; collections of files are stored as gzip'ed tar files.

• Lecture materials (14 slides about the techniques)

• The techniques
  • Code Reading
    • Instructions for applying the technique
    • Data-collection forms and worksheets
  • Functional Testing
    • Instructions for applying the technique
    • Data-collection forms and worksheets
  • Structural Testing
    • Instructions for applying the technique
    • Data-collection forms and worksheets

• Objects used in the training phase.
  • Program ``count''
    • Specification
    • Code
    • Example solution for ``code reading''
    • Faults and associated failures
  • Program ``series''
    • Specification
    • Code
    • Example solution for ``functional testing''
    • Faults and associated failures
  • Program ``tokens''
    • Specification
    • Code
    • Example solution for ``structural testing''
    • Faults and associated failures

• Objects used in the live experiment.
  • Program ``ntree''
    • Specification
    • Code
    • Faults and associated failures
  • Program ``cmdline''
    • Specification
    • Code
    • Faults and associated failures
  • Program ``nametbl''
    • Specification
    • Code
    • Faults and associated failures

• Old stuff
  Here are the programs and specifications used in the 1985 Basili, Selby experiment.