A Comparison Infrastructure for Fault Characterization Algorithms

IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (ICSTW), pp. 201–210

Abstract

Fault characterization is an important part of combinatorial testing which enables the automatic identification of failure-inducing combinations. Up until now, many different algorithms are proposed to compute failure-inducing combinations. However, the only comparisons between different algorithms are done by the algorithms authors themselves who only evaluate few algorithms at a time which complicates comparisons. Therefore, we present a concept and a reference implementation of a comparison infrastructure that allows to evaluate fault characterization algorithms in a comparable manner. In addition, we report on the results of a preliminary comparison using the comparison infrastructure.

Authors 3

1. Torben Friedrichs Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, NRW, Germany

2. Konrad Fögen Aachen Research Group Software Construction

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   Research Group Software Construction, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, NRW, Germany

3. Horst Lichter Aachen Research Group Software Construction

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   Research Group Software Construction, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, NRW, Germany