Objective re-weighting to guide an interactive search based software testing system

Marculescu, Bogdan,1984Blekinge Tekniska Högskola,Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation (författare)

Even hardware-focused industries today develop products where software is both a large and important component. Engineers tasked with developing and integrating these products do not always have a software engineering background. To ensure quality, tools are needed that automate and support software testing while allowing these domain specialists to leverage their knowledge and experience. Search-based testing could be a key aspect in creating an automated tool for supporting testing activities. However, domain specific quality criteria and trade-offs make it difficult to develop a general fitness function a priori, so interaction between domain specialists and such a tool would be critical to its success. In this paper we present a system for interactive search based software testing and investigate a way for domain specialists to guide the search by dynamically re-weighting quality goals. Our empirical investigation shows that objective reweighing can help a human domain specialist interactively guide the search, without requiring specialised knowledge of the system and without sacrificing population diversity.

NATURVETENSKAP Data- och informationsvetenskap Programvaruteknik hsv//swe
NATURAL SCIENCES Computer and Information Sciences Software Engineering hsv//eng
search based software testing
interactive search based software engineering
user centered
embedded software
industrial experience
embedded software

Feldt, Robert,1972Blekinge Tekniska Högskola,Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation(Swepub:bth)rfd (författare)
Torkar, Richard,1971Blekinge Tekniska Högskola,Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik (GU),Department of Computer Science and Engineering (GU),University of Gothenburg,Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation(Swepub:bth)rto (författare)
Blekinge Tekniska HögskolaSektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation (creator_code:org_t)

Ingår i:2013 12th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, ICMLA 2013; Miami, FL; United States; 4 December 2013 through 7 December 2013Miami : IEEE2, s. 102-107

Av författaren/redakt...: Marculescu, Bogd ...; Feldt, Robert, 1 ...; Torkar, Richard, ...

Om ämnet

NATURVETENSKAP: NATURVETENSKAP; och Data och informa ...; och Programvarutekni ...

Av lärosätet: Göteborgs universitet; Chalmers tekniska högskola; Blekinge Tekniska Högskola

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