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JOURNAL ARTICLE


COMBINATORIAL SOFTWARE TESTING

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Published: August 07, 2009
Citation: Computer (IEEE Computer) vol. 42, no. 8, (August 2009) pp. 94-96


AUTHOR(S)

Richard Kuhn (NIST), Raghu Kacker (NIST), Yu Lei (UTA), Justin Hunter (Hexawise)

ANNOUNCEMENT



ABSTRACT

Developers of large data-intensive software often notice an interesting – though
not surprising – phenomenon: when usage of an application jumps dramatically,
components that have operated for months without trouble suddenly develop
previously undetected errors. For example, newly added customers may have
account records with an oddball combination of values that have not been seen
before. Some of these rare combinations trigger faults that have escaped
previous testing and extensive use. Or, the application may have been installed
on a different OS-hardware-DBMS-networking platform. Combinatorial testing,
which exercises all t-way combinations up to a pre-specified level of t, can
help find problems like this early in the testing life-cycle.

Developers of large data-intensive software often notice an interesting – though
not surprising – phenomenon: when usage of an application jumps dramatically,
components that have operated for months without trouble suddenly develop
previously undetected errors. For example, newly added customers... See full
abstract

Developers of large data-intensive software often notice an interesting – though
not surprising – phenomenon: when usage of an application jumps dramatically,
components that have operated for months without trouble suddenly develop
previously undetected errors. For example, newly added customers may have
account records with an oddball combination of values that have not been seen
before. Some of these rare combinations trigger faults that have escaped
previous testing and extensive use. Or, the application may have been installed
on a different OS-hardware-DBMS-networking platform. Combinatorial testing,
which exercises all t-way combinations up to a pre-specified level of t, can
help find problems like this early in the testing life-cycle.


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KEYWORDS

combinatorial methods; combinatorial testing; software assurance; software
testing

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Document History:
08/07/09: Journal Article (Final)


TOPICS

Security and Privacy
assurance; testing & validation

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