COR
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Evolutionary Testing is a promising approach for automating the testing of software-based systems. A number of papers have been published in the last years which have successfully...
GECCO
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Springer
A well-designed fitness function is essential to the effectiveness and efficiency of evolutionary testing. Fitness function design has been researched extensively. For fitness ...
GECCO
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
Encapsulation of states in object-oriented programs hinders the search for test data using evolutionary testing. As client code is oblivious to the internal state of a server obje...
GECCO
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2003
Springer
Evolutionary Testing (ET) has been shown to be very successful in testing real world applications [16]. However, it has been pointed out [11], that further research is necessary if...
GECCO
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2004
Springer
Test case design is the most important test activity with respect to test quality. For this reason, a large number of testing methods have been developed to assist the tester with ...
GECCO
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2004
Springer
Software systems are used regularly in safety-relevant applications. Therefore, the occurrence of critical defects may not only cause costly recalls but may also endanger human liv...
ISSTA
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2004
ACM
Evolutionary testing is an effective technique for automatically generating good quality test data. However, for structural testing, the technique degenerates to random testing i...
GECCO
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
It is not unusual for a software development organization to expend 40 percent of total project effort on testing, which can be a very laborious and time-consuming process. Thus, ...
KBSE
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2007
IEEE
Achieving high structural coverage such as branch coverage in objectoriented programs is an important and yet challenging goal due to two main challenges. First, some branches inv...