Title :
Lightweight guided random simulation
Author :
Sumners, Rob ; Chhabra, Parminder ; Abraham, Jacob A.
Author_Institution :
Comput. Eng. Res. Center, Texas Univ., Austin, TX, USA
Abstract :
We present methods for improving the effectiveness of random simulation using guides measured during the execution of a program. The key idea is to select inputs based on the measurement of the current state and judge input sequence effectiveness by analyzing the measured direction it induces. The process allows a set of test programs to be derived from a single guide by varying a random seed. We present some experimental results for an initial implementation
Keywords :
program testing; software performance evaluation; virtual machines; input sequence effectiveness; lightweight guided random simulation; measured direction; random seed; test programs; Computational modeling; Computer bugs; Current measurement; Jacobian matrices; Monitoring; Programming profession; Read only memory; Sequential analysis; Software systems; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Software Reliability Engineering, 1998. Proceedings. The Ninth International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Paderborn
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8991-9
DOI :
10.1109/ISSRE.1998.730881
