Evaluation of Fault Detection Effectiveness for Combinatorial and Exhaustive Selection of Discretized Test Inputs

Montanez-Rivera, Carmelo; Kuhn, Richard; Brady, Mary; Rivello, Richard; Reyes, Jenise; Powers, Michael

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Evaluation of Fault Detection Effectiveness for Combinatorial and Exhaustive Selection of Discretized Test Inputs

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Published: June 04, 2012
Citation: Software Quality Professional vol. 14, no. 3, (June 2012)

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Carmelo Montanez-Rivera, Richard Kuhn, Mary Brady, Richard Rivello, Jenise Reyes, Michael Powers

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Abstract

The need for human review often causes high costs for testing of graphical interface software. Some testers advocate combinatorial testing, combining strong fault detection with a small number of tests. This article compares combinatorial testing with the traditional method of exhaustive human testing. Fault detection is shown to be comparable for a more than twentyfold reduction in number of tests when combinatorial testing was used.

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combinatorial testing; conformance; interoperability testing; modeling; standards and specifications; World Wide Web (WWW)

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06/04/12: Journal Article (Final)