Reducing Test Cases Created by Path-Oriented Test Case Generation
Jirapun Daengdej, Nicha Kosindrdecha, Siripong Roongruangsuwan · AIAA Infotech@Aerospace 2007 Conference and Exhibit · 2007
“Path-Oriented” is one of the most widely used techniques for finding a set of test cases for testing software. Given a set of test cases generated by the Path-Oriented technique, this paper discusses the use of a number of case maintenance techniques, which have been investigated by Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) researchers in ensuring that only small amount of cases are stored in the case base, thereby reducing number of test cases should be used in software testing. Similar to what happen to software testing, a number of CBR researchers have focused on finding approaches especially for reducing cases in the CBR systems’ storages. We propose a number of techniques which adapt some of this research. Our preliminary experiments show that the proposed technique can be effectively used in reducing the number of test cases required for software testing, while maintaining the accuracy of system's output.