A Method for Generating a Minimal Functional Set of Test-Cases for Software-Intensive Systems.
Jörg Gericke, Matthias Wiemann · 2006
Abstract- In testing software components, choosing appropriate test-cases is a difficult task. Not only input data must be identified that results in different behavior of the component under test, but also the resultant high number of test-cases must be handled. This work describes a method for selecting test input data by dividing the input parameter value domains into equivalence classes and reducing the number of resultant test-cases by applying a pair-wise coverage of parameters values. That way, a minimal number of testcases can be generated that already provides coverage of standard test methods to a high degree and finds a significant number of errors. The described method was implemented and used for automating the testing of automotive systems. Keywords: Software-intensive systems, robust testing, classification trees method, test generation, test suite reduction 1.