• DocumentCode
    2349210
  • Title

    Lightweight guided random simulation

  • Author

    Sumners, Rob ; Chhabra, Parminder ; Abraham, Jacob A.

  • Author_Institution
    Comput. Eng. Res. Center, Texas Univ., Austin, TX, USA
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    4-7 Nov 1998
  • Firstpage
    185
  • Lastpage
    191
  • Abstract
    We present methods for improving the effectiveness of random simulation using guides measured during the execution of a program. The key idea is to select inputs based on the measurement of the current state and judge input sequence effectiveness by analyzing the measured direction it induces. The process allows a set of test programs to be derived from a single guide by varying a random seed. We present some experimental results for an initial implementation
  • Keywords
    program testing; software performance evaluation; virtual machines; input sequence effectiveness; lightweight guided random simulation; measured direction; random seed; test programs; Computational modeling; Computer bugs; Current measurement; Jacobian matrices; Monitoring; Programming profession; Read only memory; Sequential analysis; Software systems; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Software Reliability Engineering, 1998. Proceedings. The Ninth International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Paderborn
  • ISSN
    1071-9458
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-8991-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISSRE.1998.730881
  • Filename
    730881
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2349210