Nature inspired algorithm using particle swarm approach with variations in inertia weights for automatic test data generation based on dominance concepts

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    • Sanjay Singla
    • Raj Kumar
    • Dharminder Kumar
    2017-12-21
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i1.1.9949
  • Testing, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Inertia Weight, Dominance Tree.

  • In software testing, testing of all program statements is a very crucial issue as it consumes a lot of time, effort and cost. The time, effort and cost can be reduced by using an efficient technique to reduce the test case and a good optimization algorithm to generate efficient, reliable and unique test cases. In this paper, the concept of dominance tree is used which covers all edges/statement by using minimum test case. Nature inspired algorithm - PSO (Particle Swarm Optimization) by applying different inertia weights is used to generate unique, reliable and efficient test cases to cover the leaf nodes of dominance tree. Inertia weights like fixed inertia weight (FIW), global-local best (GLbestIW), Time-Dependent weight (TDW), and proposed GLbestRandIW weights are used with PSO to investigate the effect of inertia weights on the execution of PSO with respect to number of generation required, percentage coverage , total test cases generated to test the software under consideration.

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    Singla, S., Kumar, R., & Kumar, D. (2017). Nature inspired algorithm using particle swarm approach with variations in inertia weights for automatic test data generation based on dominance concepts. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(1.1), 431-434. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i1.1.9949