Unit Analysis and Testing

Larry J. Morell (Hampton University)
Lionel E. Deimel (Software Engineering Institute)

Curriculum Module
SEI-CM-9-2.0

This module examines the techniques, assessment, and management of unit analysis and testing. Analysis strategies are classified according to the view they take of the software: textual, syntactic, control flow, data flow, computation flow, or functional. Testing strategies are categorized according to whether their coverage goal is specification-oriented, implementation-oriented, error-oriented, or a combination of these. Mastery of the material in this module allows the software engineer to define, conduct, and evaluate unit analyses and tests and to assess new techniques proposed in the literature.