Multicondition Coverage

Multicondition Coverage includes all measure points for decision coverage. Additionally, it measures if all true-false-combinations for the evaluation of the atomic conditions inside the decision have been tested.

Example: The following function contains a decision consisting of four atomic conditions.

int multicondition(int a, int b, int c, int d){
  if ((a || b) && (c || d)){
    return 1;
  }
  else {
    return 0;
  }
}

It is tested with the input

multicondition(0, 0, 0, 1); // Test I
multicondition(0, 0, 1, 0); // Test II
multicondition(0, 0, 1, 1); // Test III
multicondition(0, 1, 0, 0); // Test IV
multicondition(0, 1, 0, 1); // Test V
The multicondition in line 2 can be evaluated in seven different ways, reduced by short-circuit evaluation. The test cases provide this coverage:

Test cases I, II and III correspond to evaluation alternative 7, hence its counter has value "3". Test IV corresponds to alternative 6 and test V to alternative 4.

For the code in line 2, nine measure points are taken into account for multicondition coverage: the true and false evaluation of the whole decision and the seven evaluation alternatives.

Multicondition instrumentation is also done in assignment statement, if the expression to be assigned is a boolean expression containing && or || operators, for example:
x = (a || b) && (c || d);