Author : MD. Karishma 1
Date of Publication :7th October 2016
Abstract: Combinatorial Interaction Testing (CIT) is a black-box testing technique which tests the software with all required combinations to detect faults. The importance of CIT is to reduce the software testing cost and increasing the effectiveness. In the existing literature, there are primarily two tools they are Covering Arrays by Simulated Annealing (CASA) and Advanced Combinatorial Interaction Testing System (ACTS). Among them, ACTS is used to build the t-way test sets. It maintains the generation of a test set where ‘t’ value ranging from 1 to 6 which allows the user to identify constraints and must be satisfied to be legal. It is used to generate covering array faster in which constraints play an important role to increase the efficiency. Constraints are limitations which should be satisfied by a set. By this it is easy to find a test suite which increases the fault detection rates. The drawback here is if constraints are increased, then it is difficult to apply Combinatorial Testing which is not efficient. So, in the proposed work to overcome this drawback and to increase the efficiency certain invalid combinations should be removed from the test set. Therefore, the efficiency is increased by decreasing the number of constraints.
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