Sorry to say I cannot address how or whether this has been applied in the context of unit testing. I accidentally implemented an OA strategy in a product compatibility system, and I've seen it applied to system validation and acceptance testing (where the treatment was rather rigorous and quite a lot of overhead in design work). However, if you can relate the theory and practices to what you are doing, it may be a useful argument when dealing with the FDA.
On a more practical note, a subset of OA, all-pairs, has been implemented in various ways. A quick search of google showed http://satisfice.com/testmethod.shtml (a perl implementation)
http://fit.c2.com/wiki.cgi?AllPairs (a java implementation)
The supporting material and links may give you more grist for the mill.
Regards, Mitch Amiano SoftwareAdjuvant.com Agile Markup Corp
Mai Nguyen wrote:
I have a question..... Let me tell you about it.
There are regulatory procedures dictated by the FDA that our company have to comply to when we develop our software. One of them is how to do our unit test. In the past we have used C, and there is a requirement stating that for more "complex" software units, we have to do more rigorous testing to achieve 100% statement coverage, decision coverage... But now we are using Java (and a bit of C++), and JUnit for our unit testing. We now encourage people to test the functionality of their class as that is the strength of JUnit. We don't think it's important to achieve 100% coverage anymore and are finding ways to deviate from the procedure. To do that, I need to have a sound justification. So, do you know of any technical papers about unit testing in Java and C++? and anything about efficacy of statement coverage in Java?
I did a quick search in google but have not found anything "good enough" yet.
If you run across anything like this, let me know. Thanks.
Mai Nguyen
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