Incomplete MaxSAT approaches for combinatorial testing

We present a Satisfiability (SAT)-based approach for building Mixed Covering Arrays with Constraints of minimum length, referred to as the Covering Array Number problem. This problem is central in Combinatorial Testing for the detection of system failures. In particular, we show how to apply Maximum...

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Autores: Ansótegui Gil, Carlos José, Manyà Serres, Felip, Ojeda Contreras, Jesús, Salvia Hornos, Josep M., Torres, Eduard
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2022
País:España
Recursos:Universitat de Lleida (UdL)
Repositório:Repositori Obert UdL
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.udl.cat:10459.1/84116
Acesso em linha:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10732-022-09495-3
http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/84116
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Combinatorial testing
Maximum satisfiability
Constraint programming
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Resumo:We present a Satisfiability (SAT)-based approach for building Mixed Covering Arrays with Constraints of minimum length, referred to as the Covering Array Number problem. This problem is central in Combinatorial Testing for the detection of system failures. In particular, we show how to apply Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT) technology by describing efficient encodings for different classes of complete and incomplete MaxSAT solvers to compute optimal and suboptimal solutions, respectively. Similarly, we show how to solve through MaxSAT technology a closely related problem, the Tuple Number problem, which we extend to incorporate constraints. For this problem, we additionally provide a new MaxSAT-based incomplete algorithm. The extensive experimental evaluation we carry out on the available Mixed Covering Arrays with Constraints benchmarks and the comparison with state-of-the-art tools confirm the good performance of our approaches.