CPA-SEL: Testing Systems with Large and Complex Test Spaces: Techniques, Tools and Empirical Studies

CPA-SEL：具有大型和复杂测试空间的测试系统：技术、工具和实证研究

• 批准号: 0811284
• 负责人: Adam Porter
• 金额: $ 35万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-06-01 至 2013-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0811284&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CPA; SEL; Testing; Systems; Large

Proposal Number P0811284TITLE: CPA-SEL: Testing Systems with Large and Complex Test Spaces: Techniques, Tools and Empirical StudiesPI: Adam PorterToday's software systems are often implicitly organized around enormous and complexly-structured design, construction, and usage spaces. This research focuses on defining, creating, and analyzing explicit models that link development spaces to the resulting test spaces underlying software development projects. The research will create and evaluate a new framework for testing systems with large and complex test spaces that (1) explicitly models a system's test space(s), (2) creates sophisticated algorithms that aggressively sample points in the test space, (3) coordinates the test process to test those points in parallel across a powerful virtual grid of computing resources, and (4) merges and analyzes incremental results to steer test processes in ways that improve its effectiveness and efficiency. This research has the potential to transform software development by enabling developers to formulate and apply powerful testing algorithms and by generating rich sources of data that could be analyzed and fed back to projects to drive ongoing development decisions.

提案编号P0811284标题：CPA-SEL：具有大型和复杂测试空间的测试系统：技术、工具和经验主义PI：Adam Porter今天的软件系统通常隐含地围绕着巨大和结构复杂的设计、构造和使用空间进行组织。这项研究的重点是定义，创建和分析显式模型，链接开发空间的测试空间的基础软件开发项目。这项研究将创建和评估一个新的框架，用于测试具有大型复杂测试空间的系统，该框架（1）明确地对系统的测试空间进行建模，（2）创建复杂的算法，在测试空间中积极地采样点，（3）协调测试过程，以跨强大的虚拟计算资源网格并行测试这些点，以及（4）合并和分析增量结果，以提高测试流程的有效性和效率的方式引导测试流程。这项研究有可能改变软件开发，使开发人员能够制定和应用强大的测试算法，并生成丰富的数据源，可以分析和反馈到项目，以推动正在进行的开发决策。