Comparative Study of Test Data Generation Techniques

Abstract

Test Data Generation, an important part of software testing, is the process of creating a set of data for testing the adequacy of new or revised software applications. It may be the actual data that has been taken from previous operations or artificial data created for this purpose. Test Data Generation is seen to be a complex problem and though a lot of solutions have come forth most of them is limited to toy programs. Search Based Software Engineering has been applied in many applications. Evolutionary testing designates the use of metaheuristic search methods for test case generation.