A Comprehensive Survey on Combinatorial Testing: Literature Survey

Testing has to be done comprehensively within minimum time and effort, but without compromising on quality. Combinatorial testing methods have been proved to be effective that generates minimal test cases in limited time.Extensive research in the field of combinatorial testing has led to invention of methods, approaches, models, architectures, strategies, etc. Combinatorial testing can be used to test different types of applications which include applications implemented through embedded systems, WEB applications, WEB services oriented applications, enterprise applications etc. As on date, as many as more than 452 papers have been published in the field of combinatorial testing. Several surveys have been presented covering two different periods [2003-2005] and [2005-2011] that covers 300 papers. After these two surveys, many contributions (152) have been made since then. In this textbook, survey on testing software using combinatorial techniques is presented that covers all contributions made till date and also provides for multi indexing so that the researchers will be able to navigate quite easily and get the articles of their interest with ease.