7.4 Adequacy Criteria Based on Data Flow
To be able to construct test adequacy criteria based on sets dpu and dcu, we first define some notions related to coverage. In the definitions below we assume that the data flow graph of P contains k nodes where nodes n1 and nk represent the start and end nodes, respectively. Some node s in the data flow graph of program P is considered covered by test case t when the following complete path is traversed upon the execution of P against t,
(ni1 , ni2 , . . . , nim−1 , nim)
and s = nij for some 1 ≤ j ≤ m and m ≤ k, i.e. node s lies on the path traversed. Similarly, an edge (r, s) in the data flow graph of P is considered covered by t upon the execution of P against t, when the path listed above is traversed ...
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