Verification of general and cyclic covering arrays using grid computing

  • Authors:
  • Himer Avila-George;Jose Torres-Jimenez;Vicente Hernández;Nelson Rangel-Valdez

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Instituto de Instrumentación para la Imagen Molecular;CINVESTAV-Tamaulipas, Laboratorio de Tecnologías de Información;Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Instituto de Instrumentación para la Imagen Molecular;CINVESTAV-Tamaulipas, Laboratorio de Tecnologías de Información

  • Venue:
  • Globe'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Data management in grid and peer-to-peer systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

A covering array (CA) is an N × k matrix over the alphabet v s.t. each N × k subset contains at least one time each vt combination. Covering Arrays (CAs) have been applied mainly in software and hardware testing. The construction of CAs requires to do the verification that each N × t subset contains at least one time each vt combination. In this paper we present a sequential algorithm and a grid algorithm to do the CA verification. The algorithms were tested using a benchmark of CAs of variable strength. The main conclusion of the paper lies in the identification of the strengths and weakness of our algorithms (related to the values of the CA parameters).