Variable Strength Interaction Testing of Components

Myra B. Cohen; Peter B. Gibbons; Warwick B. Mugridge; Charles Colbourn; James Collofello

Variable Strength Interaction Testing of Components

Myra B. Cohen, Peter B. Gibbons, Warwick B. Mugridge, Charles Colbourn, James Collofello

Computer Science and Engineering

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Abstract

Complete interaction testing of components is too costly in all but the smallest systems. Yet component interactions are likely to cause unexpected faults. Recently, design of experiment techniques have been applied to software testing to guarantee a minimum coverage of all t-way interactions across components. However, t is always fixed. This paper examines the need to vary the size oft in an individual test suite and defines a new object, the variable strength covering array, that has this property. We present some computational methods to find variable strength arrays and provide initial bounds for a group of these objects.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society's International Computer Software and Applications Conference
Pages	413-418
Number of pages	6
State	Published - 2003
Event	Proceedings: 27th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2003 - Dallas, TX, United States Duration: Nov 3 2003 → Nov 6 2003

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Other	Proceedings: 27th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2003
Country/Territory	United States
City	Dallas, TX
Period	11/3/03 → 11/6/03

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Software

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Cohen, MB, Gibbons, PB, Mugridge, WB, Colbourn, C & Collofello, J 2003, Variable Strength Interaction Testing of Components. in Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society's International Computer Software and Applications Conference. pp. 413-418, Proceedings: 27th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2003, Dallas, TX, United States, 11/3/03.

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