Coverage-Based, prioritized testing using neural network clustering

  • Authors:
  • Nida Gökçe;Mubariz Eminov;Fevzi Belli

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Statistics, Mugla University, Turkey;-;Department of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, University of Paderborn, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ISCIS'06 Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Computer and Information Sciences
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Graph-based algorithms are commonly used to automatically gener ate test cases for coverage-oriented testing of software systems. Because of time and cost constraints, the entire set of test cases generated by those algorithms cannot be run. It is then essential to prioritize the test cases in sense of a rank ing, i.e., to order them according to their significance which usually is given by several attributes of relevant events entailed. This paper suggests unsupervised neural network clustering of test cases for forming preference groups, where adaptive competitive learning algorithm is applied for training the neural net work used. A case study demonstrates and validates the approach.