Parameter tuning or default values? An empirical investigation in search-based software engineering

A Arcuri, G Fraser - Empirical Software Engineering, 2013‏ - Springer
Many software engineering problems have been addressed with search algorithms. Search
algorithms usually depend on several parameters (eg, population size and crossover rate in …

Random testing: Theoretical results and practical implications

A Arcuri, MZ Iqbal, L Briand - IEEE transactions on Software …, 2011‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A substantial amount of work has shed light on whether random testing is actually a useful
testing technique. Despite its simplicity, several successful real-world applications have …

On parameter tuning in search based software engineering

A Arcuri, G Fraser - … : Third International Symposium, SSBSE 2011, Szeged …, 2011‏ - Springer
When applying search-based software engineering (SBSE) techniques one is confronted
with a multitude of different parameters that need to be chosen: Which population size for a …

Sound empirical evidence in software testing

G Fraser, A Arcuri - 2012 34th International Conference on …, 2012‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Several promising techniques have been proposed to automate different tasks in software
testing, such as test data generation for object-oriented software. However, reported studies …

A methodological framework for evaluating software testing techniques and tools

TEJ Vos, B Marín, MJ Escalona… - 2012 12th international …, 2012‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There exists a real need in industry to have guidelines on what testing techniques use for
different testing objectives, and how usable (effective, efficient, satisfactory) these …

Evolutionary functional black-box testing in an industrial setting

TEJ Vos, FF Lindlar, B Wilmes, A Windisch… - Software Quality …, 2013‏ - Springer
During the past years, evolutionary testing research has reported encouraging results for
automated functional (ie black-box) testing. However, despite promising results, these …

Assessing and generating test sets in terms of behavioural adequacy

G Fraser, N Walkinshaw - Software Testing, Verification and …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Identifying a finite test set that adequately captures the essential behaviour of a program
such that all faults are identified is a well‐established problem. This is traditionally …

Scriptless testing at the GUI level in an industrial setting

H Chahim, M Duran, TEJ Vos, P Aho… - Research Challenges in …, 2020‏ - Springer
TESTAR is a traversal-based and scriptless tool for test automation at the Graphical User
Interface (GUI) level. It is different from existing test approaches because no test cases need …

Integrating model-based testing with evolutionary functional testing

F Lindlar, A Windisch, J Wegener - 2010 third international …, 2010‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evolutionary Functional Testing (EFT) is a relatively recent approach to automating the
testing process. The research presented in this paper aims at increasing the acceptability of …

Search-based software testing and test data generation for a dynamic programming language

S Mairhofer, R Feldt, R Torkar - … of the 13th annual conference on …, 2011‏ - dl.acm.org
Manually creating test cases is time consuming and error prone. Search-based software
testing can help automate this process and thus reduce time and effort and increase quality …