Scenario -based Black-Box Testing in COSMIC-FFP
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چکیده
A functional size measurement method, COSMIC-FFP, which was adopted in 2003 as the ISO/IEC 19761 standard, measures software functionality in terms of the data movements across and within the software boundary. It focuses on the functional user requirements of the software and is applicable throughout the development life cycle, from the requirements phase up and including to the implementation and maintenance phases. This paper extends the use of COSMIC-FFP for testing purposes by combining the functions measured by the COSMIC-FFP measurement procedure with the black box testing strategy. It leverages the advantage of COSMIC-FFP, which is its applicability during the early development phase once the specifications have been documented. This paper also investigates the applicability of Entropy measurement in terms of its use with COSMIC-FFP for assigning priorities to test cases.
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