A methodology for controlling the size of a test suite
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Effect of test set minimization on fault detection effectiveness
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Software engineering
Using model checking to generate tests from requirements specifications
ESEC/FSE-7 Proceedings of the 7th European software engineering conference held jointly with the 7th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Model Checking Complete Requirements Specifications Using Abstraction
Automated Software Engineering
Test-Suite Reduction and Prioritization for Modified Condition/Decision Coverage
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Specification-Based Coverage Metric to Evaluate Test Sets
HASE '99 The 4th IEEE International Symposium on High-Assurance Systems Engineering
Design and Synthesis of Synchronization Skeletons Using Branching-Time Temporal Logic
Logic of Programs, Workshop
An Empirical Study of the Effects of Minimization on the Fault Detection Capabilities of Test Suites
ICSM '98 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
Criteria for Generating Specification-Based Tests
ICECCS '99 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems
Using Model Checking to Generate Tests from Specifications
ICFEM '98 Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods
Test-Suite Reduction for Model Based Tests: Effects on Test Quality and Implications for Testing
Proceedings of the 19th IEEE international conference on Automated software engineering
Generating Efficient Test Sets with a Model Checker
SEFM '04 Proceedings of the Software Engineering and Formal Methods, Second International Conference
An experimental comparison of four test suite reduction techniques
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
Using LTL rewriting to improve the performance of model-checker based test-case generation
Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Advances in model-based testing
Engineering of Software-Intensive Systems: State of the Art and Research Challenges
Software-Intensive Systems and New Computing Paradigms
Issues in using model checkers for test case generation
Journal of Systems and Software
Efficient test suite reduction by merging pairs of suitable test cases
MODELS'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Models in software engineering
Model-Based filtering of combinatorial test suites
FASE'12 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
Reducing test effort: A systematic mapping study on existing approaches
Information and Software Technology
Efficient and flexible GUI test execution via test merging
Proceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
The size of a test-suite has a direct impact on the costs and the effort of software testing. Especially during regression testing, when software is re-tested after some modifications, the size of the test-suite is important. Common test-suite reduction techniques select subsets of test-suites that achieve given test requirements. Unfortunately, not only the test-suite size but also the fault detection ability is reduced as a consequence. This paper proposes a novel approach where testcases created with model-checker based techniques are transformed such that redundancy within the test-suite is avoided, and the overall size is reduced. As test-cases are not simply discarded, the impact on the fault sensitivity is minimal.