Using evolutionary algorithms for the unit testing of object-oriented software

As the paradigm of object orientation becomes more and more important for modern IT development projects, the demand for an automated test case generation to dynamically test object-oriented software increases. While searchbased test case generation strategies, such as evolutionary testing, are well researched for procedural software, relatively little research has been done in the area of evolutionary object-oriented software testing. This paper presents an approach with which to apply evolutionary algorithms for the automatic generation of test cases for the white-box testing of object-oriented software. Test cases for testing object-oriented software include test programs which create and manipulate objects in order to achieve a certain test goal. Strategies for the encoding of test cases to evolvable data structures as well as ideas about how the objective functions could allow for a sophisticated evaluation are proposed. It is expected that the ideas herein can be adapted for oth...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: GECCO
• Authors: Stefan Wappler, Frank Lammermann
• Keywords: GECCO 2005, Object-oriented Software, Test Case, Test Case Generation