Research on Automatic Generation of Test Data in MX Based on Genetic Algorithms
Feng Xia①② Hao Hui-min①
①(College of Computer Science and Technology, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300, China) ②(Information Technology Research Base of CAAC, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300, China)
Using genetic algorithms to generate test data automatically is becoming a hot topic in recent years, the method on effectively generating data is highly dependent on choosing the proper fitness function and the selecting standard. The genetic algorithm is used on Integrated Management X-software (IMX) system to help it improve the quality of regression test. Those basic test data used in this paper are taken from the data that generated by professional testers in IMX, and an initial population selecting standard is proposed based on the coverage. Experiments on IMX and triangle program show that the proposed algorithm is more effective than others, for example, with less time and iteration the method can find the testing data correctly, especially on data variety.
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