Introduction to combinatorial testing. (©2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: D. Richard Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker, Yu Lei.
• Other Names: Kuhn, D. Richard; Kacker, Raghu N; (Associate professor of computer science), Lei, Yu
• Contents: Combinatorial Methods in Testing; Software Failures and the Interaction Rule; Two Forms of Combinatorial Testing; Covering Arrays; The Test Oracle Problem; Quick Start: How to Use the Basics of Combinatorial Methods Right Away Combinatorial Testing Applied ; Document Object Model, Carmelo Montanez-Rivera, D. Richard Kuhn, Mary Brady, Rick Rivello, Jenise Reyes Rodriguez, and Michael Powers ; Rich Web Applications, Chad M. Maughan Configuration Testing ; Runtime Environment Configurations; Highly Configurable Systems and Software Product Lines; Invalid Combinations and Constraints; Cost and Practical Considerations Input Testing ; Partitioning the Input Space; Input Variables versus Test Parameters; Fault Type and Detectability; Building Tests to Match an Operational Profile; Scaling Considerations; Cost and Practical Considerations Test Parameter Analysis, Eduardo Miranda ; What Should Be Included as a Test Parameter; Combination Anomalies; Classification Tree Method; Modeling Methodology; Selecting the System under Test; Combinatorial Testing and Boundary Value Analysis Managing System State, George Sherwood ; Test Fact or Partitions with State; Test Fact or Simplifications; Sequence Unit Replay Model; Single Region State Models; Multiple Region State Models Measuring Combinatorial Coverage ; Software Test Coverage; Combinatorial Coverage; Using Combinatorial Coverage; Cost and Practical Considerations; Analysis of (t + 1)-Way Coverage Test Suite Prioritization by Combinatorial Coverage, Renee Bryce and Sreedevi Sampath ; Combinatorial Coverage for Test Suite Prioritization; Algorithm; Prioritization Criteria; Review of Empirical Studies; Tool: Combinatorial-Based Prioritization for User-Session-Based Testing; Other Approaches to Test Suite Prioritization Using Combinatorial Interactions; Cost and Practical Considerations Combinatorial Testing and Random Test Generation ; Coverage of Random Tests; Adaptive Random Testing; Tradeoffs: Covering Arrays and Random Generation; Cost and Practical Considerations Sequence-Covering Arrays ; Sequence-Covering Array Definition; Size and Construct ion of Sequence-Covering Arrays; Using Sequence-Covering Arrays; Cost and Practical Considerations Assertion-Based Testing ; Basic Assertions for Testing; Stronger Assertion-Based Testing; Cost and Practical Considerations Model-Based Testing ; Overview ; Access Control System Example; SMV Model; Integrating Combinatorial Tests into the Model; Generating Tests from Counterexamples; Cost and Practical Considerations Fault Localization ; Fault Localization Process; Locating Faults: Example; Cost and Practical Considerations Evolution from Design of Experiments ; Background; Pairwise (Two-Way) Testing of Software Systems; Combinatorial t -Way Testing of Software Systems Algorithms for Covering Array Construction, Linbin Yu and Yu Lei; Overview; Algorithm AETG; Algorithm IPOG; Cost and Practical Considerations Appendix A: Mathematics Review; Appendix B: Empirical Data on Software Failures; Appendix C: Resources for Combinatorial Testing; Appendix D: Test Tools References Index A Summary and Review appear at the end of each chapter.
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxii, 307 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 005.3028/7; Computer software -- Testing; Combinatorial analysis; COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / Quality Assurance & Testing; Computer software -- Testing; Combinatorial analysis; Computer Software -- Development; Combinatorial Optimization; COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- General; COMPUTERS -- Software Development & Engineering -- General; MATHEMATICS -- General; Combinatorial analysis; Computer software -- Testing; Computer software / Testing; Combinatorial analysis; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1466552301; 9781466552302
• Related ISBNs: 1466552298; 9781466552296
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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