Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publisher
IEEE Computer
Faculty
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School
School of Computer and Security Science
RAS ID
9338
Abstract
Redundant test cases in newly generated test suites often remain undetected until execution and waste scarce project resources. In model-based testing, the testing process starts early on in the developmental phases and enables early fault detection. The redundancy in the test suites generated from models can be detected earlier as well and removed prior to its execution. The article presents a novel model-based test suite optimization technique involving UML activity diagrams by formulating the test suite optimization problem as an Equality Knapsack Problem. The aim here is the development of a test suite optimization framework that could optimize the model-based test suites by removing the redundant test cases. An evolution-based algorithm is incorporated into the framework and is compared with the performances of two other algorithms. An empirical study is conducted with four synthetic and industrial scale Activity Diagram models and results are presented.
DOI
10.1109/ICSTW.2009.27
Access Rights
free_to_read
Comments
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of: Farooq, U. , & Lam, C. P. (2009). Evolving the Quality of a Model-Based Test Suite. Proceedings of International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation. (pp. 141-149). USA, Denver. IEEE Computer. Available here
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