Software regression as change of input partitioning

Marcel Böhme

doi:10.1109/ICSE.2012.6227046

Software regression as change of input partitioning

Marcel Böhme

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Abstract

It has been known for more than 20 years. If the subdomains are not homogeneous, partition testing strategies, such as branch or statement testing, do neither perform significantly better than random input generation nor do they inspire confidence when a test suite succeeds. Yet, measuring the adequacy of test suites in terms of code coverage is still considered a common practice. The main target of our research is to develop strategies for the automatic evolution of a test suite that does inspire confidence. When the program is changed, test cases shall be augmented that witness changed output for the same input (test suite augmentation). If two test cases witness the same partition, one is to be discarded (test suite reduction).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 34th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2012
Pages	1523-1526
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2012.6227046
Publication status	Published - 30 Jul 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Conference on Software Engineering 2012 - Zurich, Switzerland Duration: 2 Jun 2012 → 9 Jun 2012 Conference number: 34th https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/6218989/proceeding (Proceedings)

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Software Engineering 2012
Abbreviated title	ICSE 2012
Country/Territory	Switzerland
City	Zurich
Period	2/06/12 → 9/06/12
Internet address	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/6218989/proceeding (Proceedings)

Keywords

Automated Test Generation
Partition Testing
Reliability
Software Evolution

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