Covering arrays and hash families

CJ Colbourn - Information security, coding theory and related …, 2011 - ebooks.iospress.nl
The explicit construction of covering arrays arises in many disparate applications in which
factors or components interact. Despite this, current computational tools are effective only …

Variable strength covering arrays

S Raaphorst, L Moura, B Stevens - Journal of Combinatorial …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We define and study variable strength covering arrays (also called covering arrays on
hypergraphs), which are generalizations of covering arrays and covering arrays on graphs …

Covering arrays avoiding forbidden edges

P Danziger, E Mendelsohn, L Moura… - Theoretical Computer …, 2009 - Elsevier
Covering arrays (CAs) can be used to detect the existence of faulty pairwise interactions
between parameters or components in a software system. The generalization considered …

Adaptive interaction fault location based on combinatorial testing

Z Wang, B Xu, L Chen, L Xu - 2010 10th International …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Combinatorial testing aims to detect interaction faults, which are triggered by interaction
among parameters in system, by covering some specific combinations of parametric values …

A construction for strength-3 covering arrays from linear feedback shift register sequences

S Raaphorst, L Moura, B Stevens - Designs, codes and cryptography, 2014 - Springer
We present a new construction for covering arrays inspired by ideas from Munemasa (Finite
Fields Appl 4: 252–260, 1998) using linear feedback shift registers (LFSRs). For a primitive …

Efficient Greedy Algorithms with Accuracy Guarantees for Combinatorial Restrictions

CJ Colbourn - SN Computer Science, 2024 - Springer
The effective construction of covering arrays for interaction testing relies on fast, practical
algorithms. Such algorithms are needed to directly construct covering arrays and variants …

[HTML][HTML] The test suite generation problem: optimal instances and their implications

CT Cheng - Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2007 - Elsevier
In the test suite generation (TSG) problem for software systems, I is a set of n input
parameters where each I∈ I has κ (I) data values, and O is a collection of subsets of I where …

Covering Array on the Cartesian Product of Hypergraphs

Y Akhtar, S Maity - Graphs and Combinatorics, 2024 - Springer
Covering array (CA) on a hypergraph H is a combinatorial object used in interaction testing
of a complex system modeled as H. Given at-uniform hypergraph H and positive integer s, it …

Mixed covering arrays on graphs and tabu search algorithms

L Zekaoui - 2006 - ruor.uottawa.ca
Covering arrays are combinatorial objects that have been successfully applied in the design
of test suits for testing software, networks and circuits. Mixed covering arrays on graphs are …

Divisibility of polynomials over finite fields and combinatorial applications

D Panario, O Sosnovski, B Stevens, Q Wang - Designs, Codes and …, 2012 - Springer
Consider a maximum-length shift-register sequence generated by a primitive polynomial f
over a finite field. The set of its subintervals is a linear code whose dual code is formed by all …