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CATEGORIES:Computer Laboratory Security Seminar
SUMMARY:The Effectiveness of T-way Test Data Generation - 
 Michael Ellims
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/17328
DESCRIPTION:This talk reports the results of a study comparing
  the effectiveness of automatically generated test
 s constructed using random and t-way combinatorial
  techniques on safety related industrial code usin
 g mutation adequacy as the acceptance metric. A re
 ference point to current best practice is provided
  by using hand generated test vectors constructed 
 during development to establish minimum acceptance
  criteria. The study shows that 2-way adequate tes
 t sets are not adequate as measured by the mutants
  kill rate compared with hand generated test sets 
 of similar size\, but that higher factor t-way tes
 t sets can perform at least as well. To reduce the
  computation overhead of testing large numbers of 
 vectors over large numbers of mutants a staged opt
 imising approach to applying t-way tests is propos
 ed and evaluated which shows improvements in execu
 tion time and final test set size.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 2\, Computer Laboratory\, William 
 Gates Building
CONTACT:Joseph Bonneau
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