Patent ID: 7137103
Filing Date: 2006-11-14
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for assessing adequacy of a message-flow test suite for testing a message flow through a set of message flow elements, the method comprising: defining coverage criteria providing numerical evaluations of an extent to which the message-flow test suite covers a predefined property, wherein defining the coverage criteria comprises selecting a coverage model from at least one of processing node coverage, terminal coverage, connection coverage, path coverage, one or more nodes coverage, statement coverage, multiple condition coverage, exception coverage, external resources coverage, and message content coverage; determining a numerical message-flow-coverage-goal for the message flow with respect to the coverage criteria; applying the message-flow test suite to the message flow, while evaluating the coverage criteria so as to generate a numerical coverage result for the set of message flow elements; and comparing the numerical coverage result with the numerical message-flow-coverage-goal, so as to evaluate the adequacy of the message-flow test suite.