Test case selection with and without replacement

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Title: Test case selection with and without replacement
Author(s): Leung, H.; Tse, Tsun H.; Chan, F. T.; Chen, Tsong Y.
Abstract: Previous theoretical studies on the effectiveness of partition testing and random testing have assumed that test cases are selected with replacement. Although this assumption has been well known to be less realistic, it has still been used in previous theoretical work because it renders the analyses more tractable. This paper presents a theoretical investigation aimed at comparing the effectiveness when test cases are selected with and without replacement, and exploring the relationships between these two scenarios. We propose a new effectiveness metric for software testing, namely the expected number of distinct failures detected, to re-examine existing partition testing strategies.
Publication type: Journal article
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. School of Information Technology
Source: Information sciences, Vol. 129, no. 1-4 (Nov. 2000), pp. 81-103
Publication year: 2000
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Format: pp. 81-103
ISSN: 0020-0255
Publisher URL: Information sciences
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0020-0255(00)00059-1
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