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Supplementary Material for the Information Sciences Paper: An Experimental Study of Hyper-Heuristic Selection and Acceptance Mechanism for Combinatorial t-way Test Suite Generation

Software Engineering 2017-02-16 v1

Abstract

Software testing relates to the process of accessing the functionality of a program against some defined specifications. To ensure conformance, test engineers often generate a set of test cases to validate against the user requirements. Owing to the growing complexity of software and its increasing diffusion into various application domains, it is no longer unusual for a software project to have testing teams in more than one location or even distributed over many continents. Owing to the intertwined dependencies of many software development activities and their geographical and temporal issues, there are potentially many overlapping test cases which can cause unwarranted redundancies across the shared modules (i.e. a test for one requirement may be covered by more than one test). In this paper, we explore the application of our newly developed hyperheuristic, called Fuzzy Inference Selection (FIS), for addressing test redundancy reduction problem. This paper presents the supplementary results for the paper : An Experimental Study of Hyper-Heuristic Selection and Acceptance Mechanism for Combinatorial t way Test Suite Generation published in Information Sciences.

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@article{arxiv.1702.04501,
  title  = {Supplementary Material for the Information Sciences Paper: An Experimental Study of Hyper-Heuristic Selection and Acceptance Mechanism for Combinatorial t-way Test Suite Generation},
  author = {Kamal Z. Zamli and Fakhrud Din and Graham Kendall and Bestoun S. Ahmed},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.04501},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

This paper presents the supplementary results for the Fuzzy Inference Selection (FIS) hyper-heuristic accepted in Elsevier's Information Sciences. Owing to space limitation, the complete results could not be published in the main text published in Information Sciences