Title :
Antirandom testing: getting the most out of black-box testing
Author :
Malaiya, Yashwant K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, USA
Abstract :
Random testing is a well known concept that requires that each test is selected randomly regardless of the test previously applied. The paper introduces the concept of antirandom testing. In this testing strategy each test applied is chosen such that its total distance from all previous tests is maximum. Two distance measures are defined. Procedures to construct antirandom sequences are developed. A checkpoint encoding scheme is introduced that allows automatic generation of efficient test cases. Further developments and studies needed are identified
Keywords :
automatic programming; program testing; random processes; software quality; antirandom testing; automatic generation; black box testing; checkpoint encoding scheme; distance measures; efficient test cases; testing strategy; Automatic testing; Computer science; Costs; Hamming distance; Hardware; Input variables; Monitoring; Random sequences; Software testing; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
Software Reliability Engineering, 1995. Proceedings., Sixth International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Toulouse
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7131-9
DOI :
10.1109/ISSRE.1995.497647