Test Data Generation from UML State Machine Diagrams using GAs

Automatic test data generation helps testers to validate software against user requirements more easily. Test data can be generated from many sources; for example, experience of testers, source program, or software specification. Selecting a proper test data set is a decision making task. Testers have to decide what test data that they should use, and a heuristic technique is needed to solve this problem automatically. In this paper, we propose a framework for generating test data from software specifications. The selected specification is Unified Modeling Language (UML) state machine diagram. UML state machine diagram describes a system in term of state which can be changed when there is an action occurring in the system. The generated test data is a sequence of these actions. These sequences of action help testers to know how they should test the system. The quality of generated test data is measured by the number of transitions which is fired using the test data. The more transitio...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ICSEA
• Authors: Chartchai Doungsa-ard, Keshav P. Dahal, M. Alamgir Hossain, Taratip Suwannasart
• Keywords: Generated Test Data, ICSEA 2007, Software Engineering, State Machine Diagram, Test Data