Tracey, N.J. and Clark, J.A. and Mander, K.C. and McDermid, J.A. (1998) An Automated Framework for Structural Test-data Generation. In: Proceedings 13th IEEE Conference in Automated Software Engineering, 10/13/1998 - 10/16/1998, Honolulu, HI, USA.
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Abstract
Structural testing criteria are mandated in many software development standards and guidelines. The process of generating test data to achieve 100% coverage of a given structural coverage metric is labour-intensive and expensive. This paper presents an approach to automate the generation of such test data. The test-data generation is based on the application of a dynamic optimisation-based search for the required test data. The same approach can be generalised to solve other test-data generation problems. Three such applications are discussed-boundary value analysis, assertion/run-time exception testing, and component re-use testing. A prototype tool-set has been developed to facilitate the automatic generation of test data for these structural testing problems. The results of preliminary experiments using this technique and the prototype tool-set are presented and show the efficiency and effectiveness of this approach
| Item Type: | Conference or workshop item (Paper) |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming, |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Science Technology and Medical Studies > School of Computing > Systems Architecture Group |
| Depositing User: | Mark Wheadon |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Aug 2009 16:42 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Apr 2012 13:15 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/21595 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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