While pair-wise testing has shown a high level of fault detection
in many situations, it has not done so for testing logical
expressions in software applications. The modified
condition/decision coverage (MC/DC) approach was especially
developed for testing logical expressions, but test generation
according to this approach can be complicated and time-consuming.
From a practical point of view, combining pair-wise and MC/DC
testing would integrate the benefits of both approaches; however,
this would require solving many research problems. As an initial
step in this direction, our paper evaluates the level of MC/DC
coverage for pair-wise test cases in different situations and
compares this level to MC/DC coverage for random test cases. To
confirm this, we conducted experimental testing of logical
expressions of different sizes, complexities, and numbers of input
variables. Our experimental results show that the pair-wise test
cases had a higher level of MC/DC coverage compared to the random
test cases, achieving more than 70% MC/DC coverage. This allows us
to suggest pair-wise testing as a promising method to be used as
the basis for MC/DC test generation.
What are the flaws, strengths, weaknesses and/or potential for future work for the statement above?
lets start explaining from the followings :
Flaws
1. its and integration of two types of testing relating to a complex logic
2. less understanding of domain can effext the execution time
3.wrong logical expression can bring out wrong DC/MC results
Strength
1. more accurate fault detection
2. improve performance of the system
3.logical approch will generate exact result for specific scenarios
Potential for future work
1. optimization of the given logic can be done '
2.improving performance and regression of approach
While pair-wise testing has shown a high level of fault detection in many situations, it has...