Testing with fewer resources: An adaptive approach to performance-aware test case generation

G Grano, C Laaber, A Panichella… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated test case generation is an effective technique to yield high-coverage test suites.
While the majority of research effort has been devoted to satisfying coverage criteria, a …

The risks of coverage-directed test case generation

G Gay, M Staats, M Whalen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A number of structural coverage criteria have been proposed to measure the adequacy of
testing efforts. In the avionics and other critical systems domains, test suites satisfying …

On the danger of coverage directed test case generation

M Staats, G Gay, M Whalen, M Heimdahl - … , FASE 2012, Held as Part of the …, 2012 - Springer
In the avionics domain, the use of structural coverage criteria is legally required in
determining test suite adequacy. With the success of automated test generation tools, it is …

Adaptive test case allocation, selection and generation using coverage spectrum and operational profile

A Bertolino, B Miranda, R Pietrantuono… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an adaptive software testing strategy for test case allocation, selection and
generation, based on the combined use of operational profile and coverage spectrum …

Search-based system testing: high coverage, no false alarms

F Gross, G Fraser, A Zeller - … of the 2012 International Symposium on …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Modern test case generation techniques can automatically achieve high code coverage. If
they operate on the unit level, they run the risk of generating inputs infeasible in reality …

Directed test suite augmentation: an empirical investigation

Z Xu, Y Kim, M Kim, MB Cohen… - Software Testing …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Test suite augmentation techniques are used in regression testing to identify code elements
in a modified program that are not adequately tested and to generate test cases to cover …

Automatic test case generation: What if test code quality matters?

F Palomba, A Panichella, A Zaidman… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Test case generation tools that optimize code coverage have been extensively investigated.
Recently, researchers have suggested to add other non-coverage criteria, such as memory …

A cost-effective approach for hyper-parameter tuning in search-based test case generation

S Zamani, H Hemmati - 2020 IEEE international conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Search-based test case generation, which is the application of meta-heuristic search for
generating test cases, has been studied a lot in the literature, lately. Since, in theory, the …

Atm: Black-box test case minimization based on test code similarity and evolutionary search

R Pan, TA Ghaleb, L Briand - 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Executing large test suites is time and resource consuming, sometimes impossible, and
such test suites typically contain many redundant test cases. Hence, test case (suite) …

InterEvo-TR: Interactive Evolutionary Test Generation With Readability Assessment

P Delgado-Pérez, A Ramírez… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated test case generation has proven to be useful to reduce the usually high
expenses of software testing. However, several studies have also noted the skepticism of …