TY - GEN
T1 - Using the incremental approach to generate test sets
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Quality Software, QSIC 2003
AU - Yu, Y. T.
AU - Lau, M. F.
AU - Chen, T. Y.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - With the increasing complexity of software systems, the set of testing requirements can become very large. If the set of testing requirements can be naturally decomposed into smaller subsets, one may construct a test set separately to satisfy each subset of testing requirements, and then combine the test sets to form the complete test set. Such an approach is referred to as the union approach. On the other hand, the incremental approach attempts to incrementally expand a test set to satisfy the subsets of testing requirements, one at a time. This paper investigates empirically the effect of the incremental approach as compared to the union approach. Our case study indicates that the incremental approach can result in a significantly smaller test set, particularly when supplemented with the greedy heuristics.
AB - With the increasing complexity of software systems, the set of testing requirements can become very large. If the set of testing requirements can be naturally decomposed into smaller subsets, one may construct a test set separately to satisfy each subset of testing requirements, and then combine the test sets to form the complete test set. Such an approach is referred to as the union approach. On the other hand, the incremental approach attempts to incrementally expand a test set to satisfy the subsets of testing requirements, one at a time. This paper investigates empirically the effect of the incremental approach as compared to the union approach. Our case study indicates that the incremental approach can result in a significantly smaller test set, particularly when supplemented with the greedy heuristics.
KW - Empirical study
KW - fault-based testing
KW - partition testing
KW - specification-based testing
KW - test case generation
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U2 - 10.1109/QSIC.2003.1319110
DO - 10.1109/QSIC.2003.1319110
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 769520154
VL - 2003-January
SP - 263
EP - 270
BT - Proceedings - International Conference on Quality Software
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 6 November 2003 through 7 November 2003
ER -