A tabu search hyper-heuristic strategy for t-way test suite generation

KZ Zamli, BY Alkazemi, G Kendall - Applied Soft Computing, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel hybrid t-way test generation strategy (where t indicates
interaction strength), called High Level Hyper-Heuristic (HHH). HHH adopts Tabu Search as …

Variable strength interaction testing with an ant colony system approach

X Chen, Q Gu, A Li, D Chen - 2009 16th Asia-Pacific Software …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Interaction testing (also called combinatorial testing) is an cost-effective test generation
technique in software testing. Most research work focuses on finding effective approaches to …

[PDF][PDF] A review of covering arrays and their application to software testing

SA Bestoun, KZ Zamli - Journal of Computer Science, 2011 - researchgate.net
Problem statement: As a complex logic system, software may suffer from different source of
faults. Those faults can be avoided by applying different testing processes. It appears …

An orchestrated survey of available algorithms and tools for combinatorial testing

SK Khalsa, Y Labiche - 2014 IEEE 25th International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For functional testing based on the input domain of a functionality, parameters and their
values are identified and a test suite is generated using a criterion exercising combinations …

Design and implementation of a t-way test data generation strategy with automated execution tool support

KZ Zamli, MFJ Klaib, MI Younis, NAM Isa… - Information Sciences, 2011 - Elsevier
To ensure an acceptable level of quality and reliability of a typical software product, it is
desirable to test every possible combination of input data under various configurations …

[PDF][PDF] A harmony search based pairwise sampling strategy for combinatorial testing

ARA Alsewari, KZ Zamli - International Journal of the Physical …, 2012 - academicjournals.org
Over the years, we become increasingly dependent on software in many activities of our
lives. To ensure software quality and reliability, many combinations of possible input …

MC‐MIPOG: a parallel t‐way test generation strategy for multicore systems

MI Younis, KZ Zamli - ETRI journal, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Combinatorial testing has been an active research area in recent years. One challenge in
this area is dealing with the combinatorial explosion problem, which typically requires a very …

Practical minimization of pairwise-covering test configurations using constraint programming

A Hervieu, D Marijan, A Gotlieb, B Baudry - Information and Software …, 2016 - Elsevier
Context: Testing highly-configurable software systems is challenging due to a large number
of test configurations that have to be carefully selected in order to reduce the testing effort as …

[PDF][PDF] The development of a particle swarm based optimization strategy for pairwise testing

BS Ahmed, KZ Zamli, C Lim - Journal of Artificial Intelligence, 2011 - researchgate.net
A ESTRA (" T Pairwise testing strategies are used to select test cases from a large search
space considering the interactions of test input parameters in order to minimize the test suite …

Artificial bee colony algorithm for t-way test suite generation

AK Alazzawi, HM Rais, S Basri - 2018 4th International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Exhaustive testing is a very strenuous undertaking due to its numerous combinations.
Consequently, searching for and sampling an optimal test suite from viable groups of test …