NDLI: Automated test data generation using MEA-graph planning

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Manish Gupta Bastani, F. Khan, L. Yen, I.-L.
Copyright Year	2004
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Texas Univ., Dallas, TX, USA (Manish Gupta; Bastani, F.; Khan, L.; Yen, I.-L.)
Abstract	With the rapid growth in the development of modern and sophisticated software applications, such as multimodal distributed systems, the complexity of software development processes has increased enormously, posing an urgent need for automation of some of these processes. One of the key software development process is system testing. In This work, we evaluate the potential application of AI planning techniques in automating the testing process. We propose a framework for an automated planning system (APS) for applying AI planning techniques for automated testing of a software module. Using a comprehensive example, we demonstrate how the MEA-Graphplan (means-ends analysis graphplan) algorithm can be used to automatically generate test data (sequence of steps or actions) to transform the system from the current state to some desired goal state. MEA-Graph planning might prove to be computationally more efficient and effective than basic graph planning technique because here the planning graph is expanded in a goal-oriented manner using regression-matching graph constructed by regressing goals over actions that can overcome the problem of state-space explosion during graph expansion phase of the planning.
Sponsorship	IEEE Comput. Soc.
Starting Page	174
Ending Page	182
File Size	159214
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISBN	076952236X
ISSN	10823409
DOI	10.1109/ICTAI.2004.35
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2004-11-15
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Automatic testing System testing Application software Programming Artificial intelligence Automation Process planning Software testing Algorithm design and analysis Explosions automated software testing AI Planning planning graph MEA-Graphplan
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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