An Integrated Strategy for Testing User-Oriented Software Systems

测试面向用户的软件系统的集成策略

• 批准号: 0204345
• 负责人: Jeff Tian
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Southern Methodist University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-01 至 2005-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0204345&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integrated; Strategy; Testing; User; Oriented

This research develops an integrated strategy for the effectivetesting of ubiquitous software systems accessed by the massive userpopulation, such as those used to support the Internet and World Wide Web (WWW),to ensure their satisfactory performance and reliability from the users'perspective. This strategy includes three important components:1. Development of a set of high-level operational profiles (OPs),which enumerates major functions to be supported by a software and theirusage frequencies by target users, organized in groups of related userfunctions.2. For each high-level function group above, a Markov chain basedmodel is constructed to exhaustively test high-level operations andselectively test important low-level implementations, with the testing resultsanalyzed to identify system bottlenecks for reliability improvement.3. Reliability of the critical parts identified above can be assuredusing traditional testing techniques or other quality assurance techniques. This research will involve industrial partners, including IBM, Nortel Networks, and Lockheed-Martin Aeronautics, for result validation, software tool support, and future deployment.

本研究开发了一种综合策略，用于有效测试大量用户访问的无处不在的软件系统，例如用于支持互联网和万维网（WWW）的软件系统，以从用户的角度确保其令人满意的性能和可靠性。该战略包括三个重要组成部分：1．开发一套高级操作配置文件（OP），其中列举了软件支持的主要功能以及目标用户的使用频率，并组织成相关的用户功能组。2．对于上述每个高级功能组，构建基于马尔可夫链的模型来详尽地测试高级操作并选择性地测试重要的低级实现，并分析测试结果以识别系统瓶颈以提高可靠性。 3．可以使用传统测试技术或其他质量保证技术来保证上述关键部件的可靠性。这项研究将涉及 IBM、北电网络和洛克希德马丁航空公司等工业合作伙伴，以进行结果验证、软件工具支持和未来部署。