NDLI: Introducing a test suite similarity metric for event sequence-based test cases

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Author	Brooks, P.A. Memon, A.M.
Copyright Year	2009
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742 USA (Brooks, P.A.; Memon, A.M.)
Abstract	Most of today's event driven software (EDS) systems are tested using test cases that are carefully constructed as sequences of events; they test the execution of an event in the context of its preceding events. Because sizes of these test suites can be extremely large, researchers have developed techniques, such as reduction and minimization, to obtain test suites that are “similar” to the original test suite, but smaller. Existing similarity metrics mostly use code coverage; they do not consider the contextual relationships between events. Consequently, reduction based on such metrics may eliminate desirable test cases. In this paper, we present a new parameterized metric, CONTeSSi(n) which uses the context of n preceding events in test cases to develop a new context-aware notion of test suite similarity for EDS. This metric is defined and evaluated by comparing four test suites for each of four open source applications. Our results show that CONT eSSi(n) is a better indicator of the similarity of EDS test suites than existing metrics.
Starting Page	243
Ending Page	252
File Size	299243
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424448975
ISSN	10636773
DOI	10.1109/ICSM.2009.5306305
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-09-20
Publisher Place	Canada
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Software testing System testing Software systems Graphical user interfaces Information retrieval Computer science Educational institutions Application software Automatic testing Fault detection
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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