[alt.cobol] Software support tools for software testing

orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich) (06/08/91)

I am trying to compile an up-to-date bibliography of software tools for
supporting software testing. Although I am interested in all aspects of
the subject, I am particularly interested in tools that assist in test-case
generation. I am interested in both commercial products and research projects.

I am particularly interested in methods for solving path predicates,
especially those containing non-linear expressions and character strings.

I am aware of the following references and their transitive closure:

	Beizer. "Software Testing Techniques, 2nd Edition."
	New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold (1990).
	
	DeMillo, McCracken, Martin, and Passafiume. "Software Testing and
	Evaluation." Menlo Park, CA: Benjamin/Cummings (1987).

	Dunn. "Software Defect Removal." New York: McGraw Hill (1984).

	Beizer. "Software System Testing and Quality Assurance."
	New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold (1984).

	Woods. "Path Selection for Symbolic Execution Systems." 
	Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press (1982).

	Chandrasekaran and Radicchi. "Computer Program Testing."
	New York: North Holland (1981).

	Miller and Howden. "Tutorial: Software Testing and Validation
	Techniques, Second Edition." IEEE Computer Society Press (1981).

	Myers. "Software Reliability: Principles and Practices."
	New York: John Wiley & Sons (1976).

In addition, I have several conference proceedings published on the subject:

	"An Environment for Testing Ada Programs Implemented in Ada." 
	Orville R. Weyrich, Jr.
	In Proceedings of the Eighth Annual National Conference on Ada 
	Technology, Atlanta, GA, March 5-8, 1990, pages  262-268.

	"Glass Box Testing Without Explicit Path Predicate Formation." 
	Orville R. Weyrich, Jr., Sandra L. Cepeda, and David B. Brown.
	26th Annual Conference, Southeast Region, Association
	for Computing Machinery, April 21-22, 1988, Mobile, AL, pages 596-601.

	"The  Use  of  Simulation and Prototypes  in  Software  Testing." 
	Orville R.  Weyrich, Jr., David B. Brown, and John A. Miller. 
	Society for Computer Simulation, 1987.  Proceedings of the  1988
	Eastern Simulation Conferences, Tools for the
	Simulation Profession, Robert Hawkins and Roy Crosbie, Editors,
	Orlando, FL, April 18-21, 1988, pages 5-10.

	"QUEST: Query Utility Environment for Software Testing." David B. 
	Brown,  Kevin D.  Haga,  and Orville R. Weyrich, Jr. Proceedings, 
	1986  International  Test and Evaluation  Association  Symposium, 
	Challenges  of Testing Space Systems,  September 30 - October  2, 
	Huntsville, AL, pages 38-43.

Please reply via e-mail, and I will post a summary. Please note the followup-To
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Thanks,

Orville.

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