Generating Test Suites with High 3-Way Coverage for Software Testing

Abstract

Software testing is the process of executing a program or system with the intent of finding errors. Budgets assigned for software testing are generally limited. Performing exhaustive testing which tests all possible input combinations (test cases) is practically impossible. A major challenge in testing is how to achieve maximum test coverage using limited number of test cases. In this article, we propose an algebraic method of creating test suites with high 3-way configuration coverage within a fixed number of test cases.