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Ellims, Mike; Ince, Darrel and Petre, Marian
(2008).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87698-4_5
URL: http://www.springerlink.com/content/l096l66n337705...
Abstract
This paper reports the results of a study comparing the effectiveness of automatically generated tests constructed using random and t-way combinatorial techniques on safety related industrial code using mutation adequacy criteria. A reference point is provided by hand generated test vectors constructed during development to establish minimum acceptance criteria. The study shows that 2-way testing is not adequate measured by mutants kill rate compared with hand generated test set of similar size, but that higher factor t-way test sets can perform at least as well. To reduce the computation overhead of testing large numbers of vectors over large numbers of mutants a staged optimising approach to applying t-way tests is proposed and evaluated which shows improvements in execution time and final test set size.
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- Item ORO ID
- 24640
- Item Type
- Conference or Workshop Item
- ISSN
- 0302-9743
- Extra Information
- In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol.5219/2008, pp.16-29
- Keywords
- Software testing; random testing; automated test generation; unit test; combinatorial design; pairwise testing; t-way testing; mutation
- Academic Unit or School
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Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) - Research Group
- Centre for Research in Computing (CRC)
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- © 2008 Springer-Verlag
- Depositing User
- Catherine McNulty