Zhenyu Chen
Changhai Nie
ABSTRACT
The goal of test suite reduction is to satisfy all testing requirements with the minimum number of test cases. Existing techniques can be applied well on the constructed test suite. However, it is possible and necessary to optimize testing requirements before test case generation. In this paper test suite reduction is solved by testing requirement optimization. A requirement relation graph is proposed to minimize the requirement set by graph contraction. An experiment on specification-based testing is designed and implemented. The empirical studies show that the testing requirements can be optimized by the graph contraction methods effectively.
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- A novel approach for test suite reduction based on requirement relation contraction
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