Enabling Object Reuse on Genetic Programming-Based Approaches to Object-Oriented Evolutionary Testing

Ribeiro, José Carlos Bregieiro; Zenha-Rela, Mário Alberto; Vega, Francisco Fernández de

http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/14743

Use this identifier to reference this record.

Name:	Description:	Size:	Format:
Enabling object reuse on genetic programming-based approaches to object-oriented evolutionary testing.pdf	Recent research on search-based test data generation for Object-Oriented software has relied heavily on typed Genetic Programming for representing and evolving test data. However, standard typed Genetic Programming approaches do not allow Object Reuse; this paper proposes a novel methodology to overcome this limitation. Object Reuse means that one instance can be passed to multiple methods as an argument, or multiple times to the same method as arguments. In the context of Object-Oriented Evolutionary Testing, it enables the generation of test programs that exercise structures of the software under test that would not be reachable otherwise. Additionally, the experimental studies performed show that the proposed methodology is able to effectively increase the performance of the test data generation process.	341.84 KB	Adobe PDF	Download

Send Feedback

Authors

Ribeiro, José Carlos Bregieiro

Zenha-Rela, Mário Alberto

Vega, Francisco Fernández de

Abstract(s)

Recent research on search-based test data generation for Object-Oriented software has relied heavily on typed Genetic Programming for representing and evolving test data. However, standard typed Genetic Programming approaches do not allow Object Reuse; this paper proposes a novel methodology to overcome this limitation. Object Reuse means that one instance can be passed to multiple methods as an argument, or multiple times to the same method as arguments. In the context of Object-Oriented Evolutionary Testing, it enables the generation of test programs that exercise structures of the software under test that would not be reachable otherwise. Additionally, the experimental studies performed show that the proposed methodology is able to effectively increase the performance of the test data generation process.

Description

Fonte: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221009413_Enabling_Object_Reuse_on_Genetic_Programming-Based_Approaches_to_Object-Oriented_Evolutionary_Testing
EISBN - 9783642121487
Conference name - European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP; Conference date - 7 April 2010 - 9 April 2010; Conference code - 80270

Keywords

Genetic algorithms Genetic programming Software testing Testing

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/14743

Citation

Ribeiro, J.C.B., Zenha-Rela, M.A., Fernández de Vega, F. (2010). Enabling Object Reuse on Genetic Programming-Based Approaches to Object-Oriented Evolutionary Testing. In: Esparcia-Alcázar, A.I., Ekárt, A., Silva, S., Dignum, S., Uyar, A.Ş. (eds) Genetic Programming. EuroGP 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6021. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12148-7_19.