| Autor: |
Aman Jaffari, Cheol-Jung Yoo, Jihyun Lee |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2020 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Applied Sciences, Vol 10, Iss 10, p 3397 (2020) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2076-3417 |
| DOI: |
10.3390/app10103397 |
| Popis: |
In software testing, generating test data is quite expensive and time-consuming. The manual generation of an appropriately large set of test data to satisfy a specified coverage criterion carries a high cost and requires significant human effort. Currently, test automation has come at the cost of low quality. In this paper, we are motivated to propose a model-based approach utilizing the activity diagram of the system under test as a test base, focusing on its data flow aspect. The technique is incorporated with a search-based optimization heuristic to fully automate the test data generation process and deliver test cases with more improved quality. Our experimental investigation used three open-source software systems to assess and compare the proposed technique with two alternative approaches. The experimental results indicate the improved fault-detection performance of the proposed technique, which was 11.1% better than DFAAD and 38.4% better than EvoSuite, although the techniques did not differ significantly in terms of statement and branch coverage. The proposed technique was able to detect more computation-related faults and tends to have better fault detection capability as the system complexity increases. |
| Databáze: |
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