Automated Unique Input Output Sequence Generation for Conformance Testing of FSMs

نویسندگان

  • Karnig Derderian
  • Robert M. Hierons
  • Mark Harman
  • Qiang Guo
چکیده

This paper describes a method for automatically generating Unique Input Output (UIO) sequences for FSM conformance testing. UIOs are used in conformance testing to verify the end state of a transition sequence. UIO sequence generation is represented as a search problem and genetic algorithms are used to search this space. The empirical evidence indicates that the proposed method yields considerably better (up to 62% better) results compared to random UIO sequence generation.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Comput. J.

دوره 49  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006