Title
An industrial case study of the effectiveness of test generators
Abstract
Automatic test generators pursue some type of systematic coverage of the program code or heuristic sampling of the program inputs. Test generators are effective after the assumption, often (enthusiastically) embraced by researchers, that the generated test cases produce informative data for domain experts, e.g., pinpoint important bugs. This paper investigates the validity of such assumption through a case study of using test generators on industrial software with nontrivial domain-specific peculiarities. Our results properly enhance the available body of knowledge on the strengths and weaknesses of test generators.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/IWAST.2012.6228990
AST
Keywords
Field
DocType
acceleration,body of knowledge,testing,model based testing,risk based testing,maintainability,regression testing,trajectory,generators,scrum
Test harness,Test suite,Test Management Approach,Risk-based testing,Computer science,Test script,Model-based testing,Test case,Test data generation,Reliability engineering
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-1822-8
3
0.39
References 
Authors
18
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
P. Braione11228.08
Giovanni Denaro236929.00
Andrea Mattavelli31418.06
Mattia Vivanti4703.95
Ali Muhammad5182.97