Evolutionary testing is a very popular domain in the field of search based software engineering that consists i n automatically generating test data for a given piece of code using evolutionary algorithms. One of the most important measures used to evaluate the quality of the generated test suites is code coverage. In this paper we first analyze if there exists a correlation between some static measures computed on the test program and the code coverage when an evolutionary test data generator is used. In particular, we use and compare three techniques for the search engine of the test data generator: an Evolutionary Strategy, a Genetic Algorithm, and a Random Search. We have also developed a program generator that is able to create Java programs with the desired values for the given static measures. Our experimental study includes a benchmark of 1800 programs automatically generated. In addition to the correlations study we also analyze the subset of programs for which one algorithm is better than another one. This second analysis could be the basis for the development of a software tool that automatically decides the suitable test data generation search engine according to the static measures computed on the test object.
목차
Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Measures 3. Test Data Generator 3.1 Objective Function 3.2 Optimization Algorithm 4. Experimental Section 4.1 Benchmark of Test Programs 4.2 Correlation between Coverage and Static Measures 4.3 Comparison of the Algorithms 4.4 Characterizing Programs According to the Algorithms Results 5. Conclusions References
보안공학연구지원센터(IJSEIA) [Science & Engineering Research Support Center, Republic of Korea(IJSEIA)]
설립연도
2006
분야
공학>컴퓨터학
소개
1. 보안공학에 대한 각종 조사 및 연구
2. 보안공학에 대한 응용기술 연구 및 발표
3. 보안공학에 관한 각종 학술 발표회 및 전시회 개최
4. 보안공학 기술의 상호 협조 및 정보교환
5. 보안공학에 관한 표준화 사업 및 규격의 제정
6. 보안공학에 관한 산학연 협동의 증진
7. 국제적 학술 교류 및 기술 협력
8. 보안공학에 관한 논문지 발간
9. 기타 본 회 목적 달성에 필요한 사업
간행물
간행물명
International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications
간기
월간
pISSN
1738-9984
수록기간
2008~2016
등재여부
SCOPUS
십진분류
KDC 505DDC 605
이 권호 내 다른 논문 / International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications Vol.4 No.4