Title
Robust performance testing for digital forensic tools
Abstract
In previous work, the authors presented a theoretical lower bound on the required number of testing runs for performance testing of digital forensic tools. However, experimental errors are inevitable in laboratory settings, occurring as measurement errors or as random errors and can result in practical situations where the number of testing runs is far from the theoretical bound. This paper adapts our former work to tolerate such errors in the testing results. The contribution of our new methodology enables the tester to achieve performance testing results of high quality from a manageable number of observations and in a dynamic but controllable way. This is of particular interest to forensic testers who do not have access to sophisticated equipment and who can allocate only a small amount of time to testing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1016/j.diin.2009.02.003
Digital Investigation
Keywords
Field
DocType
performance testing,experimental errors,forensic tester,testing result,performance testing result,required number,previous work,eesag,robust performance testing,former work,manageable number,digital forensic tool,digital forensic tool testing,cfreds project,experimental error,digital forensics,measurement error,lower bound
Random error,Data mining,Digital forensics,Computer science,Upper and lower bounds,Orthogonal array testing,Simulation,Manual testing,White-box testing,Software performance testing,Reliability engineering,Observational error
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
6
1-2
Digital Investigation
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.51
20
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lei Pan17122.18
Lynn M. Batten2122.66