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Combinatorial Test Techniques: Table-based Automation, Test Generation and Code Coverage (1998)
| Venue: | Proceedings of the Intl. Conf. on Software Testing Analysis and Review |
| Citations: | 53 - 1 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Burr98combinatorialtest,
author = {Kevin Burr and William Young},
title = {Combinatorial Test Techniques: Table-based Automation, Test Generation and Code Coverage},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Intl. Conf. on Software Testing Analysis and Review},
year = {1998},
pages = {503--513},
publisher = {West}
}
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Abstract
The number of ways a system must be tested can often be overwhelming. There are a number of automatic testcase generation tools available but these can suffer from combinatorial explosions in the number of possibilities to test. We have combined table based testing, code coverage with Bellcore's Automatic Efficient Testcase Generator (AETG) to generate small efficient sets of testcases. AETG uses a pair-wise testcase generation technique to generate tables of test vectors, which a test driver can then execute immediately. Code coverage is then used to indicate missing functionality from AETG's model. Our initial trial of this was on a subset Nortel's internal e-mail system where we able cover 97% of branches with less than 100 valid and invalid testcases, as opposed to 27 trillion exhaustive testcases. Since then we have used it to implement low level white box testing of individual procedures up to high level black box testing of interactions between different call processing feature...
Keyphrases
code coverage test generation combinatorial test technique table-based automation different call processing feature test vector low level white box testing high level black box testing automatic efficient testcase generator initial trial individual procedure exhaustive testcases internal e-mail system pair-wise testcase generation technique subset nortel combinatorial explosion automatic testcase generation tool invalid testcases test driver small efficient set
