Title :
Effect of Test Set Minimization on Fault Detection Effectiveness
Author :
Wong, W. Eric ; Horgan, Joseph R. ; London, Saul ; Mathur, Aditya P.
Author_Institution :
Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ
Abstract :
Size and code coverage are important attributes of a set of tests. When a program P is executed on elements of the test set T, we can observe the fault detecting capability of T for P. We can also observe the degree to which T induces code coverage on P according to some coverage criterion. We would like to know whether it is the size of T or the coverage of T on P which determines the fault detection effectiveness of T for P. To address this issue we ask the following question: While keeping coverage constant, what is the effect on fault detection of reducing the size of a test set? We report results from an empirical study using the block and all-uses criteria as the coverage measures.
Keywords :
Fault detection; Software engineering; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering, 1995. ICSE 1995. 17th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seattle, Washington, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-89791-708-1