کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
395754 666010 2008 21 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Search based software testing of object-oriented containers
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی کامپیوتر هوش مصنوعی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Search based software testing of object-oriented containers
چکیده انگلیسی

Automatic software testing tools are still far from ideal for real world object-oriented (OO) software. The use of nature inspired search algorithms for this problem has been investigated recently. Testing complex data structures (e.g., containers) is very challenging since testing software with simple states is already hard. Because containers are used in almost every type of software, their reliability is of utmost importance. Hence, this paper focuses on the difficulties of testing container classes with nature inspired search algorithms. We will first describe how input data can be automatically generated for testing Java containers. Input space reductions and a novel testability transformation are presented to aid the search algorithms. Different search algorithms are then considered and studied in order to understand when and why a search algorithm is effective for a testing problem. In our experiments, these nature inspired search algorithms seem to give better results than the traditional techniques described in literature. Besides, the problem of minimising the length of the test sequences is also addressed. Finally, some open research questions are given.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Information Sciences - Volume 178, Issue 15, 1 August 2008, Pages 3075–3095
نویسندگان
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