NDLI: ARTOO

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Ciupa, I. Leitner, A. Oriol, M. Meyer, B.
Copyright Year	2008
Description	Author affiliation: ETH Zurich, Zurich (Ciupa, I.; Leitner, A.; Oriol, M.; Meyer, B.)
Abstract	Intuition is often not a good guide to know which testing strategies will work best. There is no substitute for experimental analysis based on objective criteria: how many faults a strategy finds, and how fast. "Random" testing is an example of an idea that intuitively seems simplistic or even dumb, but when assessed through such criteria can yield better results than seemingly smarter strategies. The efficiency of random testing is improved if the generated inputs are evenly spread across the input domain. This is the idea of adaptive random testing (ART). ART was initially proposed for numerical inputs, on which a notion of distance is immediately available. To extend the ideas to the testing of object-oriented software, we have developed a notion of distance between objects and a new testing strategy called ARTOO, which selects as inputs objects that have the highest average distance to those already used as test inputs. ARTOO has been implemented as part of a tool for automated testing of object-oriented software. We present the ARTOO concepts, their implementation, and a set of experimental results of its application. Analysis of the results shows in particular that, compared to a directed random strategy, ARTOO reduces the number of tests generated until the first fault is found, in some cases by as much as two orders of magnitude. ARTOO also uncovers faults that the random strategy does not find in the time allotted, and its performance is more predictable.
Starting Page	71
Ending Page	80
File Size	373980
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424444861
ISSN	02705257
e-ISBN	9781605580791
DOI	10.1145/1368088.1368099
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2008-05-10
Publisher Place	Germany
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
Subject Keyword	Software testing Subspace constraints Automatic testing Software engineering Object oriented modeling Software tools Application software Random number generation Software quality System testing software testing adaptive random testing object distance
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Software

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