Dynamic Traversal and Combination strategy

Question

Hello all,

I was just exploring SpecExplorer and have two questions regarding its features.

1) I have found some information dynamic traversal at http://207.46.16.251/en-us/library/microsoft.specexplorer.dynamictraversal.aspx However, i have not found any examples how this can be done. Can anyone give me some links of examples or more information on it?

2)The Combination class gives a number of choices of the combination strategies like Interaction,Isolated, Seeded,pairwise etc. Can we define and implement our own combination strategy based on some algorithm. If yes, how? 

Thanks,

Vivek.

Answer 1

If you want to customize the strategy of dynamic traversal, please take a look at the short paragraph in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee620422.aspx, secion "Using Dynamic Traversal". Unfortunately there's no sample project for it yet, but the source code of Microsoft.SpecExplorer.DynamicTraversal.dll is installed together with Spec Explorer, and you can probably take a look at it for an example of implementation of IDynamicTraversal interface. The source is located at:

    <Your VS installation folder>\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\Spec Explorer 2010\3.5\SpecExplorerDynamicTraversalSrc.zip.

For your second question, no, we don't support extensibility in the parameter combination yet. What kind of specific combination strategy are you interested in?

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Thanks, Yiming