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[Cem.Kaner]

On Thursday 05 June 2008 09:25, Michael Bolton wrote:

>> > lin_ly_y...@yahoo.com wrote:
>> > > Our application is an extreme configurable web application, which
>> > > means we can generate millions of test cases with different
>> > > permutations. It makes our test coverage become very challenging.
>> > > Does anyone have any good testing strategies/methodologies which are
>> > > suitable for applications like ours?
> - test by a more structured sampling approach using pairwise or
> orthogonal array testing (but consider the skill and effort required
> to identify the variables; consider that OA testing makes far, far
> more sense for manufactured goods than it does for software; and
> consider this paper:
> http://www.testingeducation.org/wtst5/PairwisePNSQC2004.pdf)


A bunch of institutions are working together to extend and automate
pairwise and orthogonal array testing calling it Automated
Combinatorial Testing for Software. NIST has a beta version of a
tool which takes the variables and k (as in "k-way testing") and
produces a pretty small test set. The link is
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/acts/

-paul-