Software Engineering

3.4 
 Test and evaluation relationships  
and dependencies
The testing effort may consume a significant amount of project resources in terms 
of budget, tools, equipment, and schedule. The testing and evalution effort deter-
mines the suitability of the software product and post-development processes 
relative to the requirements baseline. The test and evaluation effort involves the fol-
lowing relationships and dependencies with the software architecture:
1. 
Test coverage (software product architecture).
 Software test coverage provides 
an important indicator of the software implementation progress. It is necessary 
to track test coverage against the three elements of the software architecture to 
ensure complete exposure of the software product to testing. During software 
implementation, the focus is on tracking software unit and component test cov-
erage showing how much of the application you have exercised. During test 
planning, it is necessary to correlate test cases and scenarios with the require-
ments that they exercise.
2. 
Test sufficiency (requirements baseline).
 Testing the software product entails 
some deliberate scrutiny to identify a set of discriminating test cases and scenar-
ios that will exercise the software product under simple, practical, and extreme 
conditions or circumstances. Boundary testing concentrates on the boundary 

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