毕业设计之文献翻译（计算机软件测试）.doc

Software Testing: Black-Box Techniques Smirnov Sergey Abstract – Software systems play a key role in different parts of modern life. Software is used in every financial, business, educational etc. organization. Therefore, there is a demand for high quality software. It means software should be proper tested and verified before system-integration time. This work concentrated on so-called black-box technique for software testing. The several black-box methods were considered with their strengths and weaknesses. Also, the potential of automated black-box techniques for better performance in testing of reusable components was studied. Finally, the topic related to software security testing was discussed. 1. Introduction Computer technologies plays an important role in the modern society. Computers and Software that drives them affect more people and more businesses than ever today. Therefore, there is a pressure for software developers not only to build software systems quickly, but to focus on quality issues too. Low quality software that can cause loss of life or money is no longer acceptable. In order to achieve a production of highquality software the whole process of developing and maintaining of the software has to be changed and developers have to be correspondingly educated and trained. Testing takes an important part in any software development process (Fig. 1.1). As a process by itself it is related to two other processes verification and validation. Validation is a process of evaluation a software system or component during or, at the end of, the development cycle in order to determine whether it satisfies specified requirements [8]. Verification is the process of evaluating a software system or component to determine whether the products of a given development phase satisfy the conditions imposed at the start of that phase [8]. Software testing is a process or several processes designed to make sure computer code does what it was designed to do and that it