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Validating object-oriented software at design phase by achieving MC/DC

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  • Swadhin Kumar Barisal

    (National Institute of Technology)

  • Suvam Suvabrata Behera

    (National Institute of Technology)

  • Sangharatna Godboley

    (National University of Singapore)

  • Durga Prasad Mohapatra

    (National Institute of Technology)

Abstract

This paper deals with a new technique for validating object-oriented software at design phase of project development. There are several modeling diagrams used at design phase of Software Development Life Cycle. But in this paper, we focus on UML Activity Diagram. In our work, first we construct the UML activity diagram for the given system using ArgoUML. Then, the XML (“EXtensible Markup Language”) code is generated for the constructed activity diagram. Next, this XML code is translated to XSD (“XML Schema Definition”) code. This XSD code is given as input to JAXB (“Java Architecture for XML Binding”), which generates the Java template. Then, this Java template is instrumented to a complete Java program with minimal manual effort. Next, we carryout concolic testing of this Java code using jCUTE. This tool generates test cases by taking the Java program as input. Then, the obtained test suite and generated Java source code are inputed into our in-house developed tool named COPECA (COverage PErcentage CAlculator) to calculate MC/DC (Modified Condition/Decision Coverage) score. We have achieved 56.31% MC/DC on doing experiment with fourteen activity diagrams, which is a fair (moderate) achievement compared to the existing work.

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  • Swadhin Kumar Barisal & Suvam Suvabrata Behera & Sangharatna Godboley & Durga Prasad Mohapatra, 2019. "Validating object-oriented software at design phase by achieving MC/DC," International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, Springer;The Society for Reliability, Engineering Quality and Operations Management (SREQOM),India, and Division of Operation and Maintenance, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden, vol. 10(4), pages 811-823, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ijsaem:v:10:y:2019:i:4:d:10.1007_s13198-019-00815-8
    DOI: 10.1007/s13198-019-00815-8
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    1. Moshiur Bhuiyan & Mm Zahidul Islam & George Koliadis & Aneesh Krishna & Aditya Chose, 2008. "Supporting Uml Activity Diagrams Using Organizational Models," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Man-Chung Chan & Ronnie Cheung & James N K Liu (ed.), Challenges In Information Technology Management, chapter 27, pages 182-188, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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