Search-based test case generation for object-oriented java software using strongly-typed genetic programming

GECCO'08: Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1819-1822

  Ribeiro, José Carlos Bregieiro ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF LEIRIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Evolutionary testing; Object orientation; Search based test case generation; Strongly typed genetic programming

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE TESTING; STATIC ANALYSIS; TESTING;

AUTOMATED TEST CASE GENERATION; EVOLUTIONARY TESTING; INPUT DOMAIN REDUCTION; META-HEURISTIC SEARCH TECHNIQUES; OBJECT ORIENTATION; OBJECT-ORIENTED JAVA SOFTWARE; STRONGLY-TYPED GENETIC PROGRAMMING; TEST CASE GENERATION;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 57349159446     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1388969.1388979     Document Type: Conference Paper

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