Test Suite Reduction and Fault Detecting Effectiveness: An Empirical Evaluation

  • Authors:
  • Tsong Yueh Chen;Man Fai Lau

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Ada Europe '01 Proceedings of the 6th Ade-Europe International Conference Leuven on Reliable Software Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Test suite reduction is aimed at finding representative sets that can satisfy the same testing objective as their original test suite. As a subset of the original test suite, the representative set may have less fault detection capability. However, researches show that a representative set and its original test suite have similar fault detection capabilities for the case of coverage based criteria. This paper investigates the relationship between the fault detection capabilities of a representative set and its original test suite when the generation of the test suite is based on some fault-based test case selection criteria.