Experiments with high volume test automation

We are working with a broad class of testing techniques we collectively call High Volume Test Automation (HVTA). The essence of HVTA techniques is automated execution and evaluation of large numbers of tests, for the purpose of exposing functional errors that are otherwise hard to find. These techniques are not widely used in industry, but we believe they have the potential to help us substantially increase the reliability of software.We propose to find existing industry HVTA projects, write informal case studies of them, create our own tools to implement the technique, and apply our tool in a case study of one or more open source projects.