Communications of the ACM
Ut Arlington Software Engineer's Tool Makes For Quicker Tests
More than 1,000 firms have requested the ACTS software testing tool, says Jeff Lei, a software engineer at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Credit: University of Texas at Arlington
University of Texas at Arlington Professor Jeff Lei is refining the Advanced Combinatorial Testing System (ACTS), a computer-testing tool designed to reduce the amount of time and cost companies must spend to determine whether a new program works. Lei says the tool tests software enough to be certain of its ability. The ACTS tool is available free on the National Institute of Standards and Technology Web site.
Combinatorial testing works best on complex systems, and Lei's current work will use ACTS in healthcare information technology. He notes that healthcare information is sensitive and needs to be secure and reliable, and combinatorial testing can provide those assurances. Lei's team will focus on healthcare tests and how medical devices talk to each other.
Lei believes his work could significantly lower the cost of healthcare, while improving the quality. "Some systems — like medical devices or defense weapons or disaster communications networks — need to have as high a reliability factor as possible," he says.
From University of Texas at Arlington
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