评一篇文章（Experiments of the effectiveness of dataflow- and controlflow-based test adequacy criteria）

这篇文章挺好玩，本来是讲软件测试的adequacy criteria的：

M. Hutchins, H. Foster, T. Goradia, and T. Ostrand, "Experiments of the effectiveness of dataflow- and controlflow-based test adequacy criteria," in Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Software engineering, Sorrento, Italy, 1994, pp. 191-200.

被引用了500多次，但是大部分引用它的论文都是因为用到其提出的数据集，大名鼎鼎的西门子数据集（Siemens Test Suite），例如下面这几篇文章：

R. Santelices and M. J. Harrold, "Exploiting program dependencies for scalable multiple-path symbolic execution," in Proceedings of the 19th international symposium on Software testing and analysis, Trento, Italy, 2010, pp. 195-206.

H. Cheng, D. Lo, Y. Zhou, X. Wang, and X. Yan, "Identifying bug signatures using discriminative graph mining," in Proceedings of the eighteenth international symposium on Software testing and analysis, Chicago, IL, USA, 2009, pp. 141-152.

偶尔发现了一篇文章是引用其test adequacy criteria：

S. Elbaum, S. Kanduri and A. Andrews, "Trace anomalies as precursors of field failures: an empirical study," Empirical Softw. Engg., vol. 12, pp. 447-469, 2007.

原作者肯定想想不到，自己构造的数据集比方法影响力要广得多。

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今天是2012年5月6日，再补充一下，这个数据集可以在两个地方下载：

1. SIR网站：http://sir.unl.edu/php/index.php （需要注册）

2. aristotle Lab的网站：http://pleuma.cc.gatech.edu/aristotle/Tools/subjects/ （不需要注册）

补充这点内容，方便国内研究人员下载。（我可是对这些数据魂牵梦绕过好久）