White box testing-basis path testing

White box testing-basis path testing

In software engineering, basis path testing, or structured testing, is a white box method for designing test cases. The method analyzes the control flow graph of a program to find a set of linearly independent paths of execution. The method normally uses McCabe' cyclomatic complexity to determine the number of linearly independent paths and then generates test cases for each path thus obtained. Basis path testing guarantees complete branch coverage (all CFG edges), but achieves that without covering all possible CFG paths—the latter is usually too costly .Basis path testing has been widely used and studied

decision-to-decision path, or DD-path, is a path of execution (usually through a flow graph representing a program, such as a flow chart) between two decisions. More recent versions of the concept also include the decisions themselves in their own DD-paths.