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Test cases are said to be successful if they do not reveal failures. With the exception of fault-based testing, successful test cases are generally regarded as useless. If test cases are selected according to some testing objectives, intuitively speaking, successful test cases should still carry some information which may be useful. Hence, we are interested to see how to make use of this implicit information to help reveal failures. Recently, we have studied this problem from two different perspectives: one based on the properties of the problem to be implemented; and the other based on the notion of failure patterns which are formed by the failure-causing inputs, that is, inputs that reveal failures.
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Chen, T.Y. (2005). Are Successful Test Cases Useless or Not?. In: Reussner, R., Mayer, J., Stafford, J.A., Overhage, S., Becker, S., Schroeder, P.J. (eds) Quality of Software Architectures and Software Quality. QoSA SOQUA 2005 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3712. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11558569_2
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