Test Case Selection Method Based on Orthogonal Experiment Design
ZENG Maoxi
LU Lu
Abstract：Context-aware applications(CAAs) running on mobile devices are now developing quite rapidly due to the ad-vanced built-in sensor technologies .These applications constantly capture environmental information as contexts and then a-dapt to the contextual changes .However ,their adaptations may contain errors when erroneous adaptation rules are trig-gered .Hence ,testing these applications becomes a vital prerequisite for their development .Due to the diversity of contexts , there may be a combinatorial explosion problem during test case generating .This paper proposes a new optimization method for selecting efficient test cases from the perspective of orthogonal experiment design (OED) .A common context-aware ap-plication is developed to prove the effectiveness of this method .Additionally ,an analysis of the fault localization capabilities is presented .Experiment results show that our method can not only significantly select out efficient test cases but also find out the factors that cause the faults of a CAA .
Keywords：software testingcontext-aware applicationtest case selectionorthogonal experiment design
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 1468-1473 )