TY - GEN
T1 - Controlling restricted random testing
T2 - 19th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 2007
AU - Chan, Kwok Ping
AU - Chen, T. Y.
AU - Towey, Dave
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - In Restricted Random Testing (RRT), the main control parameter is the Target Exclusion Ratio (R), the proportion of the input domain to be excluded from test case generation at each iteration. Empirical investigations have consistently indicated that best failure-finding performance is achieved when the value for the Target Exclusion Ratio is maximised, i.e. close to 100%. This paper explains an algorithm to calculate the Actual Exclusion Ratio for RRT, and applies the algorithm to several simulations, confirming that previous empirically determined values for the Maximum Target Exclusion Ratio do give Actual Exclusion Ratios close to 100%. Previously observed trends of improvement in failure-finding efficiency of RRT corresponding to increases in Target Exclusion Ratios are also identified for Actual Exclusion Ratios.
AB - In Restricted Random Testing (RRT), the main control parameter is the Target Exclusion Ratio (R), the proportion of the input domain to be excluded from test case generation at each iteration. Empirical investigations have consistently indicated that best failure-finding performance is achieved when the value for the Target Exclusion Ratio is maximised, i.e. close to 100%. This paper explains an algorithm to calculate the Actual Exclusion Ratio for RRT, and applies the algorithm to several simulations, confirming that previous empirically determined values for the Maximum Target Exclusion Ratio do give Actual Exclusion Ratios close to 100%. Previously observed trends of improvement in failure-finding efficiency of RRT corresponding to increases in Target Exclusion Ratios are also identified for Actual Exclusion Ratios.
KW - Adaptive Random Testing
KW - Exclusion Ratio
KW - Random Testing
KW - Restricted Random Testing
KW - Software Testing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84886926787&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84886926787
SN - 9781627486613
T3 - 19th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 2007
SP - 163
EP - 166
BT - 19th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 2007
Y2 - 9 July 2007 through 11 July 2007
ER -