Automated Test Case Generation Based on Coverage Analysis

  • Authors:
  • Tim A. Majchrzak;Herbert Kuchen

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • TASE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Third IEEE International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present a tool for the automated generation of unit tests. It symbolically executes Java bytecode in order to find execution paths through a program. To efficiently accomplish this task, it uses constraint solving, choice-point generation and backtracking. As the number of test cases found might be very high and most of them are redundant, we propose a novel way to eliminate test cases based on their contribution to the global coverage of the control-flow and data-flow. Besides discussing the techniques used to achieve this, we present experimental results to prove the feasibility of our approach.