A New Method to Generate Test Cases by Genetic Algorithm

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Because of the powerful capability of global searching and robustness of genetic algorithm, so it can be well applied in the automated generation of test data.Establish a module to generate test cases automatically by genetic algorithms.We can find that genetic algorithm guide the generation of the test data by the evaluation function according to the constraints of the path.It will not only avoid the blindness of the data searching process with higher efficiency,but also need not to consider the matching problem of the generated test data and test sequences.It can even run effectively relying only on the fitness of the point in the searching space supplied by the evaluation function.This advantage makes it a powerful searching algorithm on the type of random searching.

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