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Exploring Test Composition: Towards Reusability in Combinatorial Test Design

Authors:
Anna Zamansky
Eitan Farchi

Keywords: combinatorial test design, pairwise testing

Abstract:
Combinatorial test design (CTD) is an effective test planning technique that reveals faulty feature interaction in a given system. CTD takes a systematic approach to formally model the system to be tested, aiming to minimize the number of test cases while ensuring coverage of given conditions or interactions between parameters. Since the system model and its test space in real-life cases are usually enormous, the process of creation of new tests is very expensive. This naturally leads to the need for exploring ways in which reuse methodologies can be incorporated into CTD practices. In this paper, we extend the standard CTD framework to a reuse-oriented setting by incorporating the notion of test composition. This notion arises naturally in sequential testing scenarios, where the output of one test is used as the input of the next test. Based on the proposed framework, we propose a reuse-oriented reformulation for the CTD problem, with the composability of test plan being the main consideration.

Pages: 100 to 103

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: April 19, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-8394

ISBN: 978-1-61208-449-7

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from April 19, 2015 to April 24, 2015