An Indepth Study of Mirror Adaptive Random Testing

Author

Kuo, Fei-Ching

Author_Institution

Centre for Software Anal. & Testing, Swinburne Univ. of Technol., Hawthorn, VIC, Australia

fYear

2009

fDate

24-25 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

51

Lastpage

58

Abstract

Previous studies showed that adaptive random testing is an effective alternative to random testing method, but requires additional overheads to evenly spread test cases. Mirroring was introduced to reduce the overheads of adaptive random testing. This paper is the follow-up work to a previous study on the integration of mirroring and adaptive random testing, namely the mirror adaptive random testing. It studies characteristics and effectiveness of mirror adaptive random testing in depth, and provides guidelines on how to apply mirror adaptive random testing in practice.

Keywords

program testing; software quality; mirror adaptive random testing; mirroring; overhead reduction; software testing; test cases; Australia; Fault detection; Guidelines; Life testing; Mirrors; Software quality; Software testing; Stochastic processes; Subspace constraints; Test pattern generators; Software testing; adaptive random testing; failure detection effectiveness; mirroring; random testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quality Software, 2009. QSIC '09. 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Jeju

ISSN

1550-6002

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5912-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/QSIC.2009.15

Filename

5381526