An elitist-flower pollination-based strategy for constructing sequence and sequence-less t-way test suite

In line with the upcoming of a new field called search-based software engineering (SBSE), many newly developed t-way strategies adopting meta-heuristic algorithms can be seen in the literature for constructing interaction test suite (such as simulated annealing (SA), genetic algorithm (GA), ant col...

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Main Authors:	Abdullah, Nasser, Kamal Z., Zamli, Alsewari, Abdulrahman A., Ahmed, Bestoun S.
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Language:	English
Published:	Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. 2018
Subjects:	QA76 Computer software
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spelling	ump-238842019-01-30T04:24:36Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/23884/ An elitist-flower pollination-based strategy for constructing sequence and sequence-less t-way test suite Abdullah, Nasser Kamal Z., Zamli Alsewari, Abdulrahman A. Ahmed, Bestoun S. QA76 Computer software In line with the upcoming of a new field called search-based software engineering (SBSE), many newly developed t-way strategies adopting meta-heuristic algorithms can be seen in the literature for constructing interaction test suite (such as simulated annealing (SA), genetic algorithm (GA), ant colony optimisation algorithm (ACO), particle swarm optimisation (PSO), harmony search (HS) and cuckoo search (CS). Although useful, most of the aforementioned t-way strategies have assumed sequence-less interactions amongst input parameters. In the case of reactive system, such an assumption is invalid as some parameter operations (or events) occur in sequence and hence, creating a possibility of bugs triggered by the order (or sequence) of input parameters. If t-way strategies are to be adopted in such a system, there is also a need to support test data generation based on sequence of interactions. In line with such a need, this paper presents a unified strategy based on the new meta-heuristic algorithm, called the elitist flower pollination algorithm (eFPA), for sequence and sequence-less coverage. Experimental results demonstrate the proposed strategy gives sufficiently competitive results as compared with existing works. Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. 2018 Article PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/23884/7/An%20elitist-flower%20pollination-based1.pdf Abdullah, Nasser and Kamal Z., Zamli and Alsewari, Abdulrahman A. and Ahmed, Bestoun S. (2018) An elitist-flower pollination-based strategy for constructing sequence and sequence-less t-way test suite. International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, 12 (2). pp. 115-127. ISSN 1758-0366 https://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJBIC.2018.094223 https://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJBIC.2018.094223
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description	In line with the upcoming of a new field called search-based software engineering (SBSE), many newly developed t-way strategies adopting meta-heuristic algorithms can be seen in the literature for constructing interaction test suite (such as simulated annealing (SA), genetic algorithm (GA), ant colony optimisation algorithm (ACO), particle swarm optimisation (PSO), harmony search (HS) and cuckoo search (CS). Although useful, most of the aforementioned t-way strategies have assumed sequence-less interactions amongst input parameters. In the case of reactive system, such an assumption is invalid as some parameter operations (or events) occur in sequence and hence, creating a possibility of bugs triggered by the order (or sequence) of input parameters. If t-way strategies are to be adopted in such a system, there is also a need to support test data generation based on sequence of interactions. In line with such a need, this paper presents a unified strategy based on the new meta-heuristic algorithm, called the elitist flower pollination algorithm (eFPA), for sequence and sequence-less coverage. Experimental results demonstrate the proposed strategy gives sufficiently competitive results as compared with existing works.
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author	Abdullah, Nasser Kamal Z., Zamli Alsewari, Abdulrahman A. Ahmed, Bestoun S.
author_facet	Abdullah, Nasser Kamal Z., Zamli Alsewari, Abdulrahman A. Ahmed, Bestoun S.
author_sort	Abdullah, Nasser
title	An elitist-flower pollination-based strategy for constructing sequence and sequence-less t-way test suite
title_short	An elitist-flower pollination-based strategy for constructing sequence and sequence-less t-way test suite
title_full	An elitist-flower pollination-based strategy for constructing sequence and sequence-less t-way test suite
title_fullStr	An elitist-flower pollination-based strategy for constructing sequence and sequence-less t-way test suite
title_full_unstemmed	An elitist-flower pollination-based strategy for constructing sequence and sequence-less t-way test suite
title_sort	elitist-flower pollination-based strategy for constructing sequence and sequence-less t-way test suite
publisher	Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
publishDate	2018
url	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/23884/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/23884/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/23884/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/23884/7/An%20elitist-flower%20pollination-based1.pdf
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An elitist-flower pollination-based strategy for constructing sequence and sequence-less t-way test suite

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