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Requirement Based Testability Estimation Model of Object Oriented Software


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1 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Integral University, Lucknow 226026, India
2 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IET Campus, Lucknow 226026, India
 

To measure testability before the actual development starts will play a crucial role to the developer, designers and end users as well. Early measurement of testability, especially in early requirement stage to assist the developer for the further development process, and will also assures us to produce and deliver the high quality requirement that can surely reduce the overall cost and improves the quality of development process. Taking view of this fact, this paper identifies testability estimation factors namely understandability and modifiability and establishes the correlation among testability, understandability and modifiability. Further, a model is developed to quantify software testability in requirement phase and named as Requirement Testability Model of Object Oriented Software-RTMOOS. Furthermore, the correlation of Testability with these factors has been tested and justified with the help of statistical measures.

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Requirement Testability, Understandability, Modifiability, Object Oriented Software, UML.
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Authors

Mohammad Zunnun Khan
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Integral University, Lucknow 226026, India
M. A. Khanam
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Integral University, Lucknow 226026, India
M. H. Khan
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IET Campus, Lucknow 226026, India

Abstract


To measure testability before the actual development starts will play a crucial role to the developer, designers and end users as well. Early measurement of testability, especially in early requirement stage to assist the developer for the further development process, and will also assures us to produce and deliver the high quality requirement that can surely reduce the overall cost and improves the quality of development process. Taking view of this fact, this paper identifies testability estimation factors namely understandability and modifiability and establishes the correlation among testability, understandability and modifiability. Further, a model is developed to quantify software testability in requirement phase and named as Requirement Testability Model of Object Oriented Software-RTMOOS. Furthermore, the correlation of Testability with these factors has been tested and justified with the help of statistical measures.

Keywords


Requirement Testability, Understandability, Modifiability, Object Oriented Software, UML.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.13005/ojcst%2F10.04.14