On the use of intelligent agents to guide test sequence selection and optimization

International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 155-179

  Mala, D Jeya ^a   Mohan, V ^a  

^a THIAGARAJAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

Author keywords

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO); Intelligent Search Agent (ISA); Software testing; SUT; Test sequences

Indexed keywords

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION (ACO); ANT-COLONY OPTIMIZATION; AUTOMATED TESTING TOOLS; AUTOMATIC GENERATION; BRANCH COVERAGE CRITERIA; EDGE WEIGHTS; INTELLIGENT SEARCH AGENT (ISA); INTELLIGENT SEARCH AGENTS; STATE DIAGRAM; SUT; SYSTEM MODELS; TEST CASE; TEST SEQUENCE; TEST SEQUENCE OPTIMIZATION; TEST SEQUENCES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; MODEL STRUCTURES; OPTIMIZATION; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE TESTING; TESTING;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 67650373823     PISSN: 14690268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S1469026809002515     Document Type: Conference Paper

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