An Empirical Study on the Effectiveness of Automated Test Case Generation Techniques

Bolanle F. Oladejo; Dimple T. Ogunbiyi

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An Empirical Study on the Effectiveness of Automated Test Case Generation Techniques

Bolanle F. Oladejo, Dimple T. Ogunbiyi

Published in American Journal of Software Engineering and Applications (Volume 3, Issue 6)

Received: 18 November 2014 Accepted: 3 December 2014 Published: 23 December 2014

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The advent of automated test case generation has helped to reduce the laborious task of generating test cases manually and is prominent in the software testing field of research and as a result, several techniques have been developed to aid the generation of test cases automatically. However, some major currently used automated test case generation techniques have not been empirically evaluated to ascertain their performances as many assumptions on technique performances are based on theoretical deductions. In this paper, we perform experiment on two major automated test case generation techniques (Concolic test case generation technique and the Combinatorial test case generation technique) and evaluate based on selected metrics (number of test cases generated, complexities of the selected programs, the percentage of test coverage and performance score). The results from the experiment show that the Combinatorial technique performed better than the Concolic technique. Hence, the Combinatorial test case generation technique was found to be more effective than the Concolic test case generation technique based on the selected metrics.

Published in	American Journal of Software Engineering and Applications (Volume 3, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajsea.20140306.15
Page(s)	95-101
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Automated Test Case Generation Technique, Combinatorial, Concolic, Empirical Study, Software Testing, Software Metrics

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Bolanle F. Oladejo, Dimple T. Ogunbiyi. (2014). An Empirical Study on the Effectiveness of Automated Test Case Generation Techniques. American Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, 3(6), 95-101. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajsea.20140306.15

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Bolanle F. Oladejo; Dimple T. Ogunbiyi. An Empirical Study on the Effectiveness of Automated Test Case Generation Techniques. Am. J. Softw. Eng. Appl. 2014, 3(6), 95-101. doi: 10.11648/j.ajsea.20140306.15

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Bolanle F. Oladejo, Dimple T. Ogunbiyi. An Empirical Study on the Effectiveness of Automated Test Case Generation Techniques. Am J Softw Eng Appl. 2014;3(6):95-101. doi: 10.11648/j.ajsea.20140306.15

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Bolanle F. Oladejo

Department of Computer Science, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Dimple T. Ogunbiyi

Department of Computer Science, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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Bolanle F. Oladejo, Dimple T. Ogunbiyi. An Empirical Study on the Effectiveness of Automated Test Case Generation Techniques. Am J Softw Eng Appl. 2014;3(6):95-101. doi: 10.11648/j.ajsea.20140306.15

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