Design and implementation of a harmony-search-based variable-strength t-way testing strategy with constraints support

ARA Alsewari, KZ Zamli - Information and Software Technology, 2012 - Elsevier
CONTEXT: Although useful, AI-based variable strength t-way strategies are lacking in terms
of the support for high interaction strength. Additionally, most AI-based strategies generally …

Achievement of minimized combinatorial test suite for configuration-aware software functional testing using the cuckoo search algorithm

BS Ahmed, TS Abdulsamad, MY Potrus - Information and Software …, 2015 - Elsevier
Context Software has become an innovative solution nowadays for many applications and
methods in science and engineering. Ensuring the quality and correctness of software is …

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 discrete particle swarm optimization for covering array generation

H Wu, C Nie, FC Kuo, H Leung… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software behavior depends on many factors. Combinatorial testing (CT) aims to generate
small sets of test cases to uncover defects caused by those factors and their interactions …

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 variable strength interaction test suites generation strategy using particle swarm optimization

BS Ahmed, KZ Zamli - Journal of Systems and Software, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper highlights a novel strategy for generating variable-strength (VS) interaction test
suites, called VS Particle Swarm Test Generator (VS-PSTG). As the name suggests, VS …

Application of particle swarm optimization to uniform and variable strength covering array construction

BS Ahmed, KZ Zamli, CP Lim - Applied soft computing, 2012 - Elsevier
Recently, researchers have started to explore the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based
algorithms as t-way (where t indicates the interaction strength) testing strategies. Many AI …

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 …

[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 …

Literature survey of ant colony optimization in software testing

B Suri, S Singhal - 2012 CSI Sixth International Conference on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a well known and rapidly evolving meta-heuristic
technique. A large number of optimization problems have already taken advantage of the …