Abstract
Recently, many new researchers have considered the adoption of Artificial Intelligence-based Algorithm for the construction of t-way test suite generation strategies (where t indicates the interaction strengths). Although useful, most existing AI-based strategies have not sufficiently dealt or even experimented with the problem of constraints. Here, it is desirable for a particular AI-based strategy of interest to be able to automatically exclude the set of impossible or forbidden combinations from the final t-way generated suite. This paper describes our experience dealing with constraints from within a Harmony Search Algorithm based strategy, called HSS. Our experience with HSS is encouraging as we have obtained competitive test size as overall.
Keywords
- T-Way Testing
- Constraints Support
- Software and Hardware Testing
- Artificial Intelligent algorithms
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Al-Sewari, A.A., Zamli, K.Z. (2012). Constraints Dependent T-Way Test Suite Generation Using Harmony Search Strategy. In: Richards, D., Kang, B.H. (eds) Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Intelligent Systems. PKAW 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7457. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32541-0_1
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