Developing a Maintainable Test CaseGenerator for Automatic Testing ofComputer-Based Interlocking Systems
Year: 2015
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Developing software without considering the potential changes it mighthave to undergo in the future can be a costly mistake. This is becauseits maintenance costs can become very expensive as they can consumeover 90% of the total life-cycle costs. Incorporating maintainability insoftware has for this reason become highly attractive since it can significantlyreduce the maintenance costs and therefore save companies andsoftware developers a fortune. This thesis presents a software tool thathas been developed to aid Bombardier in the verification of computerbasedinterlocking (CBI) systems. The tool automatically generates testcases which represent the different tests that verify the interlocking system.The paper is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on themaintainability of the tool while the second part investigates whetherthe tool can speed up the testing process of CBI-systems at Bombardier.The results show that the tool is highly maintainable and that tests onCBI-systems can be performed significantly faster with it.
Author: Mikael Krydzinski
Language: English
Subfield: Software
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W628192462