Model for Automatic Generation of Search-Based Early Tests

Dapena, Martha Dunia Delgado; Rojas, Arloys Macías; Uribazo, Danay Larrosa; Marcos, Sandra Verona; Oliva, Perla Beatriz Fernández

doi:10.13053/cys-21-3-2716

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“…Table 1 shows the 5 studies finally selected. In addition, we decided to include [18] because, despite being published in 2017, it presents the result of our research and an antecedent of the methodology proposed here.…”

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“…As shown in the comparative study results, the selected proposals do not offer a framework allowing for an automatic requirements specification process, with the exception of [17] and [18].…”

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“…The Model to automatically generate search-based early tests (MTest.search) is presented in [18]. It is a result of our research group that constitutes a background to the work we are presenting.…”

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Specifying Requirements for Modern Software Development: A Test-Oriented Methodology

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Berná-Martínez³

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Int. J. Soft. Eng. Knowl. Eng.

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Most modern computer systems operate in distributed environments. To develop and test such applications, services, and systems, it is necessary to consider the physical devices, architectures, communication, security and deployment mechanisms involved. However, the requirements’ specification process still replicates that of traditional applications: details remain implicit and are hidden in the description. As a result, specifications are difficult to identify and, ultimately, tests are designed in the traditional way: they overlook constraints and fail to achieve the desired effects. Our objective is to design a methodology for specifying requirements in both traditional software and applications deployed in distributed environments. We present an iterative and incremental requirements specification methodology. This methodology allows us to describe functional requirements and incorporate non-functional or quality constraints, which is the main contribution of this proposal. To ensure that quality requirements are specified during the design phase, the methodology proposes a series of phases, stages and artefacts that ensure the discovery and consideration of these requirements. In order to find out the strengths and weaknesses of our methodology, we have carried out a comparative study with other similar proposals in the literature. To this end, evaluation criteria were defined by considering standards and good practices in Requirements Engineering. The results of the comparative study show that our methodology constitutes a solid procedure for a detailed requirements specification from the beginning of the software development cycle. This represents an advance over the rest of the proposals studied. Our methodology contributes to the simplification of the design and execution phases of software testing, enabling traceability between the specified requirements and the designed test cases.

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Specifying Requirements for Modern Software Development: A Test-Oriented Methodology

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Pérez²,

Berná-Martínez³

et al. 2023

Int. J. Soft. Eng. Knowl. Eng.

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Search-based reduction model for unit testing

Fernández-Oliva,

Güemes-Esperón,

Delgado-Dapena

et al. 2022

Rev.Fac.Ing.Univ.Antioquia

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Software tests are fundamental in the reliability and quality of systems, contributing to their positioning in the market. Generating test data is a critical task, as exhaustive testing is costly in time and effort. An adequate design of the test cases, which contemplates a selection of adequate values, can detect a high number of defects. The effectiveness of the test cases is measured according to the number of errors they managed to detect. However, the proposals that address these issues with the use of heuristic algorithms focus on the reduction of generation time and different coverage criteria. This article presents a search-based optimization model for the generation of unit test suites that integrates different test case design techniques considering the significance of the values generated in the detection of errors. The significance of the paths is also taken into account, with the aim of obtaining test cases with greater potential to detect errors. The optimization model uses heuristic algorithms that maximize the coverage of the paths. The results of the experimentation are presented, which show that the proposal presented generates test suits with a high capacity to detect errors. For this, the effectiveness of the generated test suits to detect errors in the mutated code was evaluated.

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Model for Automatic Generation of Search-Based Early Tests

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Specifying Requirements for Modern Software Development: A Test-Oriented Methodology

Specifying Requirements for Modern Software Development: A Test-Oriented Methodology

Search-based reduction model for unit testing

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