A taxonomy of validation strategies to ensure the safe operation of highly automated vehicles

F Batsch, S Kanarachos, M Cheah… - Journal of Intelligent …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Self-driving cars are on the horizon, making it necessary to consider safety assurance and
homologation of these autonomously operating vehicles. In this study, we systematically …

Adaptive generation of challenging scenarios for testing and evaluation of autonomous vehicles

GE Mullins, PG Stankiewicz, RC Hawthorne… - Journal of Systems and …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper we propose a new method for generating test scenarios for black-box
autonomous systems that demonstrate critical transitions in performance modes. This …

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 …

Automated generation of diverse and challenging scenarios for test and evaluation of autonomous vehicles

GE Mullins, PG Stankiewicz… - 2017 IEEE international …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel method for generating test scenarios for a black box autonomous
system that demonstrate critical transitions in its performance modes. In complex …

An experimental study of hyper-heuristic selection and acceptance mechanism for combinatorial t-way test suite generation

KZ Zamli, F Din, G Kendall, BS Ahmed - Information Sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
Recently, many meta-heuristic algorithms have been proposed to serve as the basis of a t-
way test generation strategy (where t indicates the interaction strength) including Genetic …

A hybrid Q-learning sine-cosine-based strategy for addressing the combinatorial test suite minimization problem

KZ Zamli, F Din, BS Ahmed, M Bures - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The sine-cosine algorithm (SCA) is a new population-based meta-heuristic algorithm. In
addition to exploiting sine and cosine functions to perform local and global searches (hence …

A tuned version of genetic algorithm for efficient test suite generation in interactive t-way testing strategy

S Esfandyari, V Rafe - Information and Software Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Context To improve the quality and correctness of a software product it is necessary to test
different aspects of the software system. Among different approaches for software testing …

Fuzzy adaptive teaching learning-based optimization strategy for the problem of generating mixed strength t-way test suites

KZ Zamli, F Din, S Baharom, BS Ahmed - Engineering Applications of …, 2017 - Elsevier
The teaching learning-based optimization (TLBO) algorithm has shown competitive
performance in solving numerous real-world optimization problems. Nevertheless, this …

[HTML][HTML] Test case minimization approach using fault detection and combinatorial optimization techniques for configuration-aware structural testing

BS Ahmed - Engineering Science and Technology, an International …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper presents a technique to minimize the number of test cases in configuration-aware
structural testing. Combinatorial optimization is used first to generate an optimized test suite …

CAGEN: A fast combinatorial test generation tool with support for constraints and higher-index arrays

M Wagner, K Kleine, DE Simos… - … on Software Testing …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, combinatorial testing methods have been successfully applied to test
systems with a larger number of input parameters. Generating combinatorial test sets for …