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Experience Reports and Book Chapters
This page lists experience reports in which users discuss their
work with combinatorial testing and the AETGTM system, research papers that discuss the
principles behind AETG, and book chapters that discuss combinatorial
testing. Some of the materials are available via links on this page.
AETG Experience Reports
- The Automatic Efficient Test Generator (AETG) System,
by D. M. Cohen, S. R. Dalal, A. Kajla and G. C. Patton,
Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Software
Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), Monterey, California,
November 1994.
View the paper as PDF (140Kb)
- Efficacy of AETG Test Cases as measured by code coverage,
by D. M. Cohen, S. R. Dalal, J. Parelius, and G. C. Patton,
Technical Memorandum, September 1995.
View the paper as PDF (90Kb)
- The Combinatorial Design Approach to Automatic Test Generation,
by D. M. Cohen, S. R. Dalal, J. Parelius, and G. C. Patton,
IEEE Software, v. 13, n. 5, September 1996.
View the paper as HTML (28Kb)
First presented at The Seventh International Symposium on Software
Reliability Engineering (November 1996), where it was voted one of
the best practical papers at the conference.
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The AETG System: An Approach to Testing Based on Combinatorial
Design, by
D. M. Cohen, S. R. Dalal, M. L. Fredman, and G. C. Patton,
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,
v. 23, n. 7, July 1997.
View the paper as HTML (54Kb)
- Factor-Covering Designs for Testing Software,
by S. R. Dalal and C. L. Mallows,
Technometrics, v. 50, n. 3, August 1998,
pp. 234--243.
View the paper as PDF (137Kb)
Awarded the Frank Wilcoxon Prize by the American Society for
Quality (ASQ) for the best practical application paper in
Technometrics for the year 1998.
- Combinatorial Test Techniques: Table-Based Automation, Test
Generation, and Test Coverage,
by Kevin Burr and William Young,
International Conference on Software Testing, Analysis, and
Review (STAR), San Diego, CA, October, 1998.
View the paper as PDF (1Mb)
- AETG Web: A Web Based Service for Automatic Efficient Test
Generation from Functional Requirements,
by S. R. Dalal, A. Jain, G. Patton, M. Rathi, and P. Seymour,
Proceedings of the Workshop on Industrial Strength Formal
Techniques (WIFT), Boca Raton, FL, October 1998.
View the paper as PDF (31Kb)
- Model Based Testing of a Highly Programmable System,
by S. R. Dalal, A. Jain, N. Karunanithi, J. M. Leaton, and
C. M. Lott,
Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Software
Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), Paderborn, Germany, November
1998.
View the paper as PDF (42Kb)
- Model Based Testing in Practice,
by S. R. Dalal, A. Jain, N. Karunanithi, J. M. Leaton,
C. M. Lott, G. C. Patton, and B. M. Horowitz,
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Software
Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, May 1999.
View the paper as PDF (74Kb)
- Reducing Time to Market with Combinatorial Design Method Testing,
Jerry Huller,
Proceedings of the 2000 International Council on Systems
Engineering (INCOSE) Conference, Englewood, CO, March 2000.
View the paper as PDF (43Kb)
- Modeling Requirements for Combinatorial Software Testing,
C. Lott, A. Jain, and S. Dalal,
Proceedings of the ICSE 2005 Workshop on Advances in
Model-Based Software Testing,
St. Louis, MO, May 2005.
View the paper as PDF (91Kb)
Other Reports on Combinatorial Testing
- Robust Testing of AT&T PMX/StarMAIL using OATS,
R. Brownlie, J. Prowse, and M. S. Phadke,
AT&T Technical Journal, v. 71, n. 3, May/June 1992,
pp. 41-47.
- Applying design of experiments to software testing:
experience report,
I. S. Dunietz, W. K. Ehrlich, B. D. Szablak, C. L. Mallows, and
A. Iannino,
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Software
Engineering, Boston, Massachusetts, pp. 205--215, 1997.
- A Test Generation Strategy for Pairwise Testing,
K.-C. Tai and Y. Lei,
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,
v.~28, n.~1, January 2002.
Available from UTA.EDU as PDF.
- An Investigation of the Applicability of Design of Experiments
to Software Testing, D. Richard Kuhn and Michael J. Reilly,
Proceedings of the 27th NASA/IEEE Software Engineering
Workshop, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt,
Maryland, December 2002.
View the paper as PDF (185Kb)
- Combinatorial Testing Experiences, Tools, and Solutions,
P. Zimmerer,
Proceedings of the International Conference On Software
Testing, Analysis, and Review (STAR), Anaheim,
California, November 2004.
The proceedings are available from SQE.
Book Chapters
Introductions to pairwise testing and some principles behind the
technique appear in the following books.
- "Pairwise Testing," Chapter 6 of A Practitioner's Guide to
Software Test Design
by Lee Copeland (Artech House: December 2003), ISBN 158053791X.
- "Testing from the User Interface: Inputs and Outputs," Chapter 2
of How to Break Software, A Practical Guide to Testing
by James A. Whittaker (Pearson Addison Wesley: May 2002),
ISBN 0201796198.
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