2008 The Eighth International Conference on Quality Software
An Empirical Evaluation of Test Suite Reduction for Boolean Specification-Based Testing (Short Paper)
August 12-August 13
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3312-4
As the cost of executing and maintaining a large test suite is always expensive, many test suite reduction techniques have been proposed and some empirical studies of test suite reduction techniques have already been reported. The aim of this paper is to provide a guideline for choosing the appropriate test suite reduction techniques for Boolean specification-based testing. Four typical heuristic reduction strategies: G, GE, GRE, and H??are introduced to be compared empirically. Furthermore, testing requirement optimization is combined to enhance these four reduction strategies. This paper presents the empirical evaluation of these reduction strategies based on a set of Boolean specifications from TCAS II.
Index Terms:
software testing, test suite reduction, boolean testing, testing requirement, optimization
Citation:
Xiaofang Zhang, Baowen Xu, Zhenyu Chen, Changhai Nie, Leifang Li, "An Empirical Evaluation of Test Suite Reduction for Boolean Specification-Based Testing (Short Paper)," qsic, pp.270-275, 2008 The Eighth International Conference on Quality Software, 2008