One Parameter at a time Combinatorial Testing Strategy Based on Harmony Search Algorithm OPAT-HS

Software testing is required to verify and validate systems. Combinatorial testing in one of the significant testing techniques. Design and select test cases for combinatorial testing considered as combinatorial problem. Even though there are some existing optimization algorithm based combinatorial...

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Main Authors: Al-Sewari, Abdul Rahman Ahmed Mohammed, Mu’aza, Aminu Aminu, Rassem, Taha H., Tairan, Nasser M., Shah, Habib, Kamal Z., Zamli
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spelling ump-195852018-11-05T06:18:10Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/19585/ One Parameter at a time Combinatorial Testing Strategy Based on Harmony Search Algorithm OPAT-HS Al-Sewari, Abdul Rahman Ahmed Mohammed Mu’aza, Aminu Aminu Rassem, Taha H. Tairan, Nasser M. Shah, Habib Kamal Z., Zamli QA Mathematics Software testing is required to verify and validate systems. Combinatorial testing in one of the significant testing techniques. Design and select test cases for combinatorial testing considered as combinatorial problem. Even though there are some existing optimization algorithm based combinatorial testing strategies, that minimize the number of test cases, but most of these strategies based on one-test-at-a-time (OTAT) approach and none of them has adopted the one-parameter-at-a-time (OPAT) approach. Therefore, this paper will propose a new OPAT strategy based on Harmony Search Algorithm (HS) called OPAT-HS. OPAT-HS was originally designed only to support Covering Array (CA) and Mixed Covering Array (MCA) for uniform interaction strength. The result obtained in the experiments appears that OPAT-HS is always best at configurations with MCA notations. American Scientific Publisher 2018-11 Article PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/19585/1/One%20Parameter%20at%20a%20time%20Combinatorial%20Testing%20Strategy.pdf Al-Sewari, Abdul Rahman Ahmed Mohammed and Mu’aza, Aminu Aminu and Rassem, Taha H. and Tairan, Nasser M. and Shah, Habib and Kamal Z., Zamli (2018) One Parameter at a time Combinatorial Testing Strategy Based on Harmony Search Algorithm OPAT-HS. Advanced Science Letters, 24 (10). pp. 7273-7277. ISSN 1936-6612 https://doi.org/10.1166/asl.2018.12927 DOI: 10.1166/asl.2018.12927
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Al-Sewari, Abdul Rahman Ahmed Mohammed
Mu’aza, Aminu Aminu
Rassem, Taha H.
Tairan, Nasser M.
Shah, Habib
Kamal Z., Zamli
One Parameter at a time Combinatorial Testing Strategy Based on Harmony Search Algorithm OPAT-HS
description Software testing is required to verify and validate systems. Combinatorial testing in one of the significant testing techniques. Design and select test cases for combinatorial testing considered as combinatorial problem. Even though there are some existing optimization algorithm based combinatorial testing strategies, that minimize the number of test cases, but most of these strategies based on one-test-at-a-time (OTAT) approach and none of them has adopted the one-parameter-at-a-time (OPAT) approach. Therefore, this paper will propose a new OPAT strategy based on Harmony Search Algorithm (HS) called OPAT-HS. OPAT-HS was originally designed only to support Covering Array (CA) and Mixed Covering Array (MCA) for uniform interaction strength. The result obtained in the experiments appears that OPAT-HS is always best at configurations with MCA notations.
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author Al-Sewari, Abdul Rahman Ahmed Mohammed
Mu’aza, Aminu Aminu
Rassem, Taha H.
Tairan, Nasser M.
Shah, Habib
Kamal Z., Zamli
author_facet Al-Sewari, Abdul Rahman Ahmed Mohammed
Mu’aza, Aminu Aminu
Rassem, Taha H.
Tairan, Nasser M.
Shah, Habib
Kamal Z., Zamli
author_sort Al-Sewari, Abdul Rahman Ahmed Mohammed
title One Parameter at a time Combinatorial Testing Strategy Based on Harmony Search Algorithm OPAT-HS
title_short One Parameter at a time Combinatorial Testing Strategy Based on Harmony Search Algorithm OPAT-HS
title_full One Parameter at a time Combinatorial Testing Strategy Based on Harmony Search Algorithm OPAT-HS
title_fullStr One Parameter at a time Combinatorial Testing Strategy Based on Harmony Search Algorithm OPAT-HS
title_full_unstemmed One Parameter at a time Combinatorial Testing Strategy Based on Harmony Search Algorithm OPAT-HS
title_sort one parameter at a time combinatorial testing strategy based on harmony search algorithm opat-hs
publisher American Scientific Publisher
publishDate 2018
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/19585/
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