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Software Testing and Reliability

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Swinburne University of Technology

Department of Computing Technologies

Software Testing and Reliability


SWE30009
Semester 2, 2023

Assignment 1
This is an individual assignment worth 20% of the total unit score.
Due date: 11:00pm, Monday, 21 August 2023

DESCRIPTION

Program under test

Consider the following program:

Input A, B // A and B are real variables


A=A-B
C=A*2
Output C // C is a real variable

Assume that there are only four feasible arithmetic operators, namely, + (addition), - (subtraction), *
(multiplication) and / (division).

Assignment Requirement

This assignment serves to strengthen your understanding of the test activities as well as how to generate
test cases with reference to the code of the program under test. In particular, you are required to do the
following:

A. Tasks:

You are required to adopt the testing objective of detecting ANY possible incorrect use of
arithmetic operators in this program.

The above program contains two arithmetic operators, namely, “-” in the statement of “A = A
- B” and “*” in the statement of “C = A * 2”. By “ANY possible incorrect use of arithmetic
operators”, it means that “-” is incorrect, or “*” is incorrect, or both “-” and “*” are incorrect.

Task 1: Explain and show all details on how to design the test cases for the above testing
objective.

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Task 2: Suppose you use test case (A=3, B=1) to test the above program. Is this test case able
to achieve the required testing objective? Provide your answer with justifications.

Task 3: Based on your design in Task 1, what is (or are) the concrete test case (or cases) that
can achieve the above testing objective? Explain and justify your concrete test case (or cases).

Task 4: Given B=1, find all possible values of A so that the concrete test cases (A,B) cannot
achieve the above testing objective? Explain and justify the correctness of your solution.

B. Requirement:

- You need to prepare a self-contained and complete report for addressing these four
tasks. Your report must use 12-point font size on A4 papers. The report must contain no
more than three pages. The coverage page is not required, but your submission must contain
your full name and your student number on the first line of its first page.

- You must submit the Assignment 1 report as a single PDF file (which must have the
filename specified in this format as “Assignment1-YourStudentID-YourSurname.pdf”, for
example, Assignment1-12345678-Nash.pdf) before the due date using the Submission
System for Assignment 1 in Canvas available to you.

C. Instructions:

You may want to refer to “Lecture 2” for all tasks. For Task 3, you can use the trial method and
may construct one or more than one concrete test cases. For Task 4, you can develop a program
to find them automatically, or prove the exhaustiveness of test cases.

MARKING CRITERIA

o A maximum of 40 marks for technical correctness, comprehensibility, cohesion and quality of


Task 1.
o A maximum of 10 marks for technical correctness, comprehensibility, cohesion and quality of
Task 2.
o A maximum of 20 marks for technical correctness, comprehensibility, cohesion and quality of
Task 3.
o A maximum of 20 marks for technical correctness, comprehensibility, cohesion and quality of
Task 4.
o A maximum of 10 marks is for the presentation, structure, comprehensibility and completeness
of report, as well as the compliance with the submission requirements.
o Penalty will be applied for late submission and plagiarism. Refer to the Unit Outline for the
policy on late submission and plagiarism.

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