کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
494152 860949 2007 21 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Adaptive software testing with fixed-memory feedback
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی کامپیوتر شبکه های کامپیوتری و ارتباطات
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Adaptive software testing with fixed-memory feedback
چکیده انگلیسی

Adaptive software testing is the counterpart of adaptive control in software testing. It means that software testing strategy should be adjusted on-line by using the testing data collected during software testing as our understanding of the software under test is improved. In this paper we propose a new strategy of adaptive software testing in the context of software cybernetics. This new strategy employs fixed-memory feedback for on-line parameter estimations and is intended to circumvent the drawbacks of the assumption that all remaining defects are equally detectable at constant rate and to reduce the underlying computational complexity of on-line parameter estimations. A comprehensive case study with the Space program demonstrates that the new adaptive testing strategy can really work in practice and may noticeably outperform the purely-random testing strategy and the random-partition testing strategy (or collectively, the random testing strategies) in terms of the number of tests used to detect and remove a given number of defects in a single process of software testing and the corresponding standard deviation. In addition, the case study shows that the input domain of the software under test should be partitioned non-evenly for the adaptive testing strategy.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Systems and Software - Volume 80, Issue 8, August 2007, Pages 1328–1348
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