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. 2023 Nov 7;9:e1625. doi: 10.7717/peerj-cs.1625

Table 4. Descriptive statistics (µ ± σ) over the potential boundary candidates (PBC) found by both BCS and LNS.

Total refers to the size of the union set of candidates found during the 20 executions of each strategy.

30 seconds 600 seconds
SUT Strategy Total # PBC found # Unique Total # PBC found # Unique
bytecount LNS 57 10.05 ± 0.8 0 59 12.8 ± 0.8 0
BCS 57 56.7 ± 0.5 44 57.85 ± 0.4 43
BMI class LNS 25,207 1, 747.85 ± 86.6 23,238 358,956 24, 421.7 ± 354.9 332,120
BCS 25,207 149.85 ± 13.3 1,276 1, 944.8 ± 74.5 18,358
BMI LNS 90,027 6, 147.45 ± 95.1 86,157 1,280,955 87, 319.0 ± 1747.8 1,226,314
BCS 90,027 272.7 ± 15.8 2,481 3873.05 ± 124.4 36,186
Julia Date LNS 2,444 246.1 ± 13.7 2,232 45,456 4, 351.6 ± 86.3 37,216
BCS 2,444 21.6 ± 5.9 191 897.4 ± 82.6 7,276