Title: A framework for generating prioritised test scenarios using firefly optimisation technique

Authors: Vikas Panthi; Durga Prasad Mohapatra

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, 769008, India ' Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, 769008, India

Abstract: The intention of this research is to generate test scenarios for concurrent and composite states in state machines using firefly optimisation algorithm. We have used state-based coverage criterion such as state coverage, transition coverage, transition pair coverage, etc. to evaluate the efficiency of our proposed algorithm. The proposed approach is useful for feasible test scenario generation. Generating exhaustive test scenarios for all concurrent interdependent sequences is exponential in size. As a result, in this paper, we find the important test scenarios in the presence of concurrency in composite models.

Keywords: test scenario; firefly optimisation algorithm; state machine diagram; SMD; coverage criterion; objective function.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCSM.2017.085724

International Journal of Computing Science and Mathematics, 2017 Vol.8 No.3, pp.228 - 237

Accepted: 24 Sep 2016
Published online: 10 Aug 2017 *

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