SELECTING A TESTING CRITERION BASED ON QUANTITATIVE-ANALYSIS

A number of testing path selection criteria have been proposed. These criteria can be categorized as falling between the all-statements crit erion and the all-paths criterion. To help software developers adopt a n appropriate testing technology to test software, this paper proposes a quantitative analysis of the comparison between the all-p-uses/some -c-uses criterion and the all-defs criterion. The approach is based on the different rules of selecting testing path of these criteria. A th eoretical basis for measuring testing efforts and a number of testing metrics are proposed. The results will be a good guideline for selecti ng proper testing criteria.