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As software systems evolve and change over time, test suites used for checking the correctness of software typically grow larger. Together with size, test suites tend to grow in redundancy. This is especially problematic for complex highly-configurable software domains, as growing the size of test suites significantly impacts the cost of regression testing.
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Marijan et al. (2018) studied this question.