Genetic algorithm application for enhancing state-sensitivity partitioning

Software testing is the most crucial phase in software development life cycle which intends tofind faults as much as possible. Test case generation leads the research in software testing. So, many techniques were proposed for the sake of automating the test case generation process. State sensitivit...

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Main Authors: Mohammed Sultan, Ammar, Baharom, Salmi, Abd Ghani, Abdul Azim, Din, Jamilah, Zulzalil, Hazura
Other Authors: El-Fakih, Khaled
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Language:English
Published: Springer International Publishing 2015
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/47161/
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author Mohammed Sultan, Ammar
Baharom, Salmi
Abd Ghani, Abdul Azim
Din, Jamilah
Zulzalil, Hazura
author2 El-Fakih, Khaled
author_facet El-Fakih, Khaled
Mohammed Sultan, Ammar
Baharom, Salmi
Abd Ghani, Abdul Azim
Din, Jamilah
Zulzalil, Hazura
author_sort Mohammed Sultan, Ammar
building UPM Institutional Repository
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description Software testing is the most crucial phase in software development life cycle which intends tofind faults as much as possible. Test case generation leads the research in software testing. So, many techniques were proposed for the sake of automating the test case generation process. State sensitivity partitioning is a technique that partitions the entire states of a module. The generated test cases are composed of sequences of events. However, there is an infinite set of sequences with no upper bound on the length of a sequence. Thus, a lengthy test sequence might be encountered with redundant data states, which will increase the size of test suite and, consequently, the process of testing will be ineffective. Therefore, there is a need to optimize those test cases generated by SSP. GA has been identified as the most common potential technique amongseveral optimization techniques. Thus, GA is investigated to integrate it with the existing SSP. This paper addresses the issue on deriving the fitness function for optimizing the sequence of events produced by SSP.
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spelling upm-471612016-06-27T06:46:12Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/47161/ Genetic algorithm application for enhancing state-sensitivity partitioning Mohammed Sultan, Ammar Baharom, Salmi Abd Ghani, Abdul Azim Din, Jamilah Zulzalil, Hazura Software testing is the most crucial phase in software development life cycle which intends tofind faults as much as possible. Test case generation leads the research in software testing. So, many techniques were proposed for the sake of automating the test case generation process. State sensitivity partitioning is a technique that partitions the entire states of a module. The generated test cases are composed of sequences of events. However, there is an infinite set of sequences with no upper bound on the length of a sequence. Thus, a lengthy test sequence might be encountered with redundant data states, which will increase the size of test suite and, consequently, the process of testing will be ineffective. Therefore, there is a need to optimize those test cases generated by SSP. GA has been identified as the most common potential technique amongseveral optimization techniques. Thus, GA is investigated to integrate it with the existing SSP. This paper addresses the issue on deriving the fitness function for optimizing the sequence of events produced by SSP. Springer International Publishing El-Fakih, Khaled Barlas, Gerassimos Yevtushenko, Nina 2015 Book Section PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/47161/2/abstract01.pdf Mohammed Sultan, Ammar and Baharom, Salmi and Abd Ghani, Abdul Azim and Din, Jamilah and Zulzalil, Hazura (2015) Genetic algorithm application for enhancing state-sensitivity partitioning. In: Testing Software and System: 27th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, ICTSS 2015, Sharjah and Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 23-25, 2015, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (9447). Springer International Publishing, Dubai, UAE, pp. 249-256. ISBN 9783319259444; EISBN: 9783319259451 http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/717/chp%253A10.1007%252F978-3-319-25945-1_16.pdf?originUrl=http%3A%2F%2Flink.springer.com%2Fchapter%2F10.1007%2F978-3-319-25945-1_16&token2=exp=1467006580~acl=%2Fstatic%2Fpdf%2F717%2Fchp%25253A10.1007%25252F978-3-31 10.1007/978-3-319-25945-1_16
spellingShingle Mohammed Sultan, Ammar
Baharom, Salmi
Abd Ghani, Abdul Azim
Din, Jamilah
Zulzalil, Hazura
Genetic algorithm application for enhancing state-sensitivity partitioning
title Genetic algorithm application for enhancing state-sensitivity partitioning
title_full Genetic algorithm application for enhancing state-sensitivity partitioning
title_fullStr Genetic algorithm application for enhancing state-sensitivity partitioning
title_full_unstemmed Genetic algorithm application for enhancing state-sensitivity partitioning
title_short Genetic algorithm application for enhancing state-sensitivity partitioning
title_sort genetic algorithm application for enhancing state-sensitivity partitioning
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