Experiences with Cluster and Class Testing

Gail C. Murphy, Paul Townsend, and Pok Wong

Communications of the ACM, 37(9), 1994, p.39-47.

Abstract

The article describes a testing approach and reports on the use of this approach to test two new versions of the TRACS system. TRACS is a system designed for use by a telecommunications company to monitor services used by its large business customers, to identify network problems prior to service degradation, and to respond to discovered problems on a proactive basis. The original version of the TRACS system was tested using system and cluster tests. Several problems, however, resulted from this approach. Functional dynamic testing of application-specific clusters was retained in a revised approach to testing, as well as a tool to support class testing, the Automated Class Exerciser (ACE) tool used to execute the cluster test case.


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