Abstract

FERNANDEZ-OLIVA, Perla et al. Generation of combinations of test values using metaheuristics. Ing. Ind. [online]. 2016, vol.37, n.2, pp. 200-207. ISSN 1815-5936.

The test phase is a difficult process that consumes a large percentage of the cost in terms of the time of the process of software development. The purpose of the tests is to determine if the developed products meet the requirements accord with the users and customers on specifications. Therefore, the processes, methods and tools that allow obtain good sets of test of a system are needed. This article introduces a component that automatically combines values to perform unit tests and for that were applied metaheuristics algorithms. The proposed solution has been tested in a case study, and was compared with values obtained through other algorithms proposed by authors who work the issue in the scientific community. The component allows to obtain a reduced set of test values, with less time of execution and a coverage of 100%.

Keywords : Automatic combination of values; optimization algorithms; metaheuristics algorithms; unit tests.