July 4, 2024
The article titled “Evaluation of the fixed-point iteration of minimizing delta debugging” written by Dániel Vince and Ákos Kiss (Department of Software Engineering) has been accepted into Wiley’s Journal of Software: Evolution and Process.
The article focuses on automated test case reduction without knowledge of the input structure and discusses the effects of iterating the minimizing Delta Debugging algorithm (DDMIN). It evaluates the iterated algorithm, DDMIN*, on publicly available test suites, demonstrating an average input reduction of 48.08% compared to the original DDMIN, though at the cost of additional testing steps. This study shows how the characteristics of the input affect the results of DDMIN* and under which conditions it is most effective.
The paper is in early view and can be found in the Wiley Online Library.