Computer aided software design for test programs

Includes bibliographical references (pages 36-37)Computer aided design systems have been a useful tool in the design of hardware for several years. It is just recently that CAD systems have been made available for use in software design. The purpose\ud of this project was to survey the state of the art in computer aided software design systems and to detail the characteristics of three systems which the author has developed to assist in the generation of application test programs. A variety of CASD systems are discussed and it is found that most of them are interactive systems. This requires the operator to be included as an integral part of the system and that the man-machine interface be carefully considered. The three CASD systems for the generation of test programs uncover many of the problems that have been encountered in using the computer to aid design and show the evaluation of the solutions. They introduce the concept of generalized test procedures or test techniques which simplifies the automatic approach. These systems have been used to generate several hundred tests. The report is concluded by briefly discussing the future of computer aided software design systems