A systematic review of the application and empirical investigation of search-based test case generation

S Ali, LC Briand, H Hemmati… - IEEE Transactions …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Metaheuristic search techniques have been extensively used to automate the process of
generating test cases, and thus providing solutions for a more cost-effective testing process …

[PDF][PDF] Search based software engineering: A comprehensive analysis and review of trends techniques and applications

M Harman, SA Mansouri, Y Zhang - 2009 - crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk
In the past five years there has been a dramatic increase in work on Search Based Software
Engineering (SBSE), an approach to software engineering in which search based …

Evolutionary improvement of programs

DR White, A Arcuri, JA Clark - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most applications of genetic programming (GP) involve the creation of an entirely new
function, program or expression to solve a specific problem. In this paper, we propose a new …

Search based software testing of object-oriented containers

A Arcuri, X Yao - Information Sciences, 2008 - Elsevier
Automatic software testing tools are still far from ideal for real world object-oriented (OO)
software. The use of nature inspired search algorithms for this problem has been …

A systematic map** addressing hyper-heuristics within search-based software testing

JM Balera, VA de Santiago Júnior - Information and Software Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Context Search-based Software Testing (SBST) is a research field where testing a
software product is formulated as an optimization problem. It is an active sub-area of Search …

Structural test data generation using a memetic ant colony optimization based on evolution strategies

H Sharifipour, M Shakeri, H Haghighi - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Test data generation is one of the key activities that has a significant impact on the efficiency
and effectiveness of software testing. Since manual test data generation is quite inefficient …

Shape-based adult image detection

QF Zheng, W Zeng, WQ Wang, W Gao - International Journal of …, 2006 - World Scientific
This paper investigates adult images detection based on the shape features of skin regions.
In order to accurately detect skin regions, we propose a skin detection method using multi …

Using genetic algorithms in test data generation: a critical systematic map**

DS Rodrigues, ME Delamaro, CG Corrêa… - ACM COmpUting …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Software testing activities account for a considerable portion of systems development cost
and, for this reason, many studies have sought to automate these activities. Test data …

Dynamic stop** criteria for search-based test data generation for path testing

I Hermadi, C Lokan, R Sarker - Information and Software Technology, 2014 - Elsevier
Context Evolutionary algorithms have proved to be successful for generating test data for
path coverage testing. However in this approach, the set of target paths to be covered may …

A multiple-population genetic algorithm for branch coverage test data generation

M Alshraideh, BA Mahafzah, S Al-Sharaeh - Software Quality Journal, 2011 - Springer
The software testing phase in the software development process is considered a time-
consuming process. In order to reduce the overall development cost, automatic test data …