Evolving Rules for Action Selection in Automated Testing via Genetic Programming - A First Approach

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@InProceedings{Esparcia-Alcazar:2017:evoApplications,

• author = "Anna I. Esparcia-Alcazar and Francisco Almenar and Urko Rueda and Tanja E. J. Vos",
• title = "Evolving Rules for Action Selection in Automated Testing via Genetic Programming - A First Approach",
• booktitle = "20th European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation",
• year = "2017",
• editor = "Giovanni Squillero",
• series = "LNCS",
• volume = "10200",
• publisher = "Springer",
• pages = "82--95",
• address = "Amsterdam",
• month = "19-21 " # apr,
• organisation = "Species",
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Automated testing via the GUI, Action selection for testing, Testing metrics",
• DOI = "doi:10.1007/978-3-319-55792-2_6",
• abstract = "Tools that perform automated software testing via the user interface rely on an action selection mechanism that at each step of the testing process decides what to do next. This mechanism is often based on random choice, a practice commonly referred to as monkey testing. In this work we evaluate a first approach to genetic programming (GP) for action selection that involves evolving IF-THEN-ELSE rules; we carry out experiments and compare the results with those obtained by random selection and also by -learning, a reinforcement learning technique. Three applications are used as Software Under Test (SUT) in the experiments, two of which are proprietary desktop applications and the other one an open source web-based application. Statistical analysis is used to compare the three action selection techniques on the three SUTs; for this, a number of metrics are used that are valid even under the assumption that access to the source code is not available and testing is only possible via the GUI. Even at this preliminary stage, the analysis shows the potential of GP to evolve action selection mechanisms.",
• notes = "EvoApplications2017 held in conjunction with EuroGP'2017, EvoCOP2017 and EvoMusArt2017 http://www.evostar.org/2017/cfp_evoapps.php.",

}

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