Date of Award
2011
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science
Program
Computer Science
Supervisor
Dr. Jamie Andrews
Abstract
Software testing plays a:critical role in the software development lifecycle. Auto mated unit testing strategies allow a tester to execute a large number of test cases to detect faulty behaviours in a piece of software. Many different automated unit testing strategies can be applied to test a program. In order to better understand the relationship between these strategies, “explorative” strategies are defined as those which select unit tests by exploring a large search space with a relatively simple data structure. This thesis focuses on comparing three particular explorative strategies: bounded-exhaustive, randomized, and a combined strategy. In order to precisely compare these three strategies, a test program is developed to provide a universal framework for generating and executing test cases. The test program implements the three strategies as well. In addition, we perform several experiments on these three strategies using the test program. The experimental data is collected and analyzed to illustrate the relationship between these strategies.
Recommended Citation
Zhang, Yihao, "COMPARING AUTOMATED UNIT TESTING STRATEGIES" (2011). Digitized Theses. 3699.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/digitizedtheses/3699