Shahram Moadab; Mohsen falh rad

Diagnostic Path-Oriented Test Data Generation by Hyper Cuboids

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Author(s)

1. Department of Electrical, IT and Computer Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran

2. Department of Electrical, IT and Computer Sciences, Lahijan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lahijan, Iran

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijieeb.2014.06.01

Received: 20 Aug. 2014 / Revised: 9 Oct. 2014 / Accepted: 2 Nov. 2014 / Published: 8 Dec. 2014

Index Terms

Diagnostics, Test Data Generation, Test coverage of code, Error-Prone Path, Symbolic execution

Abstract

One of the ways of test data generation is using the path-oriented (path-wise) test data generator. This generator takes the program code and test adequacy criteria as input and generates the test data in order to satisfy the adequacy criteria. One of the problems of this generator in test data generation is the lack of attention to generating the diagnostic test data. In this paper a new approach has been proposed for path-oriented test data generation and by utilizing it, test data is generated automatically realizing the goal of discovering more important errors in the least amount of time. Since that some of the instructions of any programming language are more error-prone, so the paths that contain these instructions are selected for perform test data generation process. Then, the input domains of these paths variables are divided by a divide-and-conquer algorithm to the subdomains. A set of different subdomains is called hypercuboids, and test data will be generated by these hypercuboids. We apply our method in some programs, and compare it with some previous methods. Experimental results show proposed approach outperforms same previous approaches.

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Shahram Moadab, Mohsen Falah Rad, "Diagnostic Path-Oriented Test Data Generation by Hyper Cuboids", International Journal of Information Engineering and Electronic Business(IJIEEB), vol.6, no.6, pp.1-14, 2014. DOI:10.5815/ijieeb.2014.06.01

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