Combinatorial Testing for Building Reliable Systems

Abstract

Stakeholders of technology-oriented systems expect some level of reliability from them. IEEE defines Reliability as “the ability of a system or component to perform its required functions under stated conditions for specified period of time” [10]. One of the crucial factors in determining a system’s quality is based on how reliable it is. However, ensuring reliability is hard, especially for systems that are large and complex in nature. In this article, we introduce combinatorial testing and its use in developing highly reliable systems1