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A Machine Learning Approach for Statistical Software Testing

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A Machine Learning Approach for Statistical Software Testing
Some Statistical Software Testing approaches rely on sampling the feasible paths in the control flow graph of the program; the difficulty comes from the tiny ratio of feasible paths. This paper presents an adaptive sampling mechanism called EXIST for Exploration/eXploitation Inference for Software Testing, able to retrieve distinct feasible paths with high probability. EXIST proceeds by alternatively exploiting and updating a distribution on the set of program paths. An original representation of paths, accommodating long-range dependencies and data sparsity and based on extended Parikh maps, is proposed. Experimental validation on real-world and artificial problems demonstrates dramatic improvements compared to the state of the art.
Nicolas Baskiotis, Michèle Sebag, Marie-Cla
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Type Conference
Year 2007
Where IJCAI
Authors Nicolas Baskiotis, Michèle Sebag, Marie-Claude Gaudel, Sandrine-Dominique Gouraud
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