Using program specific search operators in test data generation

Authors:
Mohammad Alshraideh
Affiliations:
The University Of Jordan, Department of Computer Science, Amman, Jordan
Venue:
ECC'10 Proceedings of the 4th conference on European computing conference
Year:
2010

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Abstract

The application of heuristic search techniques, such as genetic algorithms, to the problem of automatically generating software test data has been a growing interest for many researchers in recent years. In this paper, the program operations, in the form of the program-specific operations used to increase the performance in the generation of test data. The efficacy and performance of the proposed testing approach is assessed and validated using a variety of sample programs, and the empirical investigation is shown to give more than eightfold increase in performance.