Using evolutionary algorithms for the unit testing of object-oriented software

GECCO 2005 - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1053-1060

  Wappler, Stefan ^a   Lammermann, Frank ^a  

^a DAIMLER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automated test case generation; Chaining approach; Evolutionary testing; Multi level optimization; Object oriented testing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TESTING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA STRUCTURES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

AUTOMATED TEST CASE GENERATION; CHAINING APPROACH; EVOLUTIONARY TESTING; MULTI-LEVEL OPTIMIZATION; OBJECT-ORIENTED TESTING;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 32444441483     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1068009.1068187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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