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An Evaluation of Combination Strategies for Test Case Selection (2003)
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| Venue: | Empirical Software Engineering, Available in SpringerLink electronic Online First version |
| Citations: | 9 - 4 self |
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@TECHREPORT{Grindal03anevaluation,
author = {Mats Grindal and Birgitta Lindström and Jeff Offutt and Sten F. Andler},
title = {An Evaluation of Combination Strategies for Test Case Selection},
institution = {Empirical Software Engineering, Available in SpringerLink electronic Online First version},
year = {2003}
}
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Abstract
This paper presents results from a comparative evaluation of five combination strategies. Combination strategies are test case selection methods that combine “interesting ” values of the input parameters of a test subject to form test cases. This research comparatively evaluated five combination strategies; the All Combination strategy (AC), the Each Choice strategy (EC), the Base Choice strategy (BC), Orthogonal Arrays (OA) and the algorithm from the Automatic Efficient Test Generator (AETG). AC satisfies n-wise coverage, EC and BC satisfy 1-wise coverage, and OA and AETG satisfy pair-wise coverage. The All Combinations strategy was used as a “gold standard ” strategy; it subsumes the others but is usually too expensive for practical use. The others were used in an experiment that used five programs seeded with 128 faults. The combination strategies were evaluated with respect to the number of test cases, the number of faults found, failure size, and number of decisions covered. The strategy that requires the least number of tests, Each Choice, found the smallest number of faults. Although the Base Choice strategy requires fewer test cases than Orthogonal Arrays and AETG, it found as many faults. Analysis also shows some properties of the combination strategies that appear significant. The two most important results are that the Each Choice strategy is unpredictable in terms of which faults will be revealed, possibly indicating that faults are found by chance, and that the Base Choice and the pair-wise combination strategies to some extent target different types of faults.
Keyphrases
combination strategy test case selection test case choice strategy base choice strategy orthogonal array n-wise coverage important result comparative evaluation pair-wise combination strategy many fault pair-wise coverage test subject failure size practical use extent target different type gold standard strategy base choice 1-wise coverage test case selection method automatic efficient test generator input parameter
