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@inproceedings{hassan2013comparing,
  title={Comparing multi-point stride coverage and dataflow coverage},
  author={Hassan, Mohammad Mahdi and Andrews, James H},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering},
  pages={172--181},
  year={2013},
  organization={IEEE Press}
}

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Overview of Data

Fifteen subject programs in three different programming languages (eleven C, one C++, three Java) were used. The programs were selected as they were used in previous research and regarded as standard.

The programs are: concordance, flex, gzip, grep, sed, printtokens, printtokens2, replace, schedule, schedule2, tcas, totinfo, jtopas, nanoxml and xml-security.

Attribute Information

Type of program, Programming language, SLOC, Number of test cases, Branch coverage of whole test pool, Test suite diversity, Partial execution pattern constant

Paper Abstract

We introduce a family of coverage criteria, called Multi-Point Stride Coverage (MPSC). MPSC generalizes branch coverage to coverage of tuples of branches taken from the execution sequence of a program. We investigate its potential as a replacement for dataflow coverage, such as def-use coverage. We find that programs can be instrumented for MPSC easily, that the instrumentation usually incurs less overhead than that for def-use coverage, and that MPSC is comparable in usefulness to def-use in predicting test suite effectiveness. We also find that the space required to collect MPSC can be predicted from the number of branches in the program.