Previous work has developed the What You See Is What You Test (WYSIWYT)
methodology for testing spreadsheets. This methodology has been shown
to help end users test, debug, and modify spreadsheets. To date, however, this
system has provided no support for creating, reusing, and managing test cases,
a process that can be tedious and time-consuming. To alleviate this, we have
developed automated test case generation and test reuse methodologies for the
WYSIWYT methodology. For test case generation, we have prototyped two
techniques, and performed a study to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of
these techniques. The results of this study show that we can efficiently exercise
a large percentage of a spreadsheet under test. We also implemented a test reuse
methodology and performed a study that shows that we are able to find a relatively
small subset of test cases to reuse after a modification to a spreadsheet,
and that these test cases re-establish much of the coverage lost by modifications
made to the spreadsheet. / Graduation date: 2003
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/28615 |
| Date | 23 August 2002 |
| Creators | Fisher, Marc Randall |
| Contributors | Rothermel, Gregg |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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