A Heuristic Technique for Automated Test Cases Generation from UML Activity Diagram

Vol.6 No.3

Year: 2012

Issue: January-March

Title: A Heuristic Technique for Automated Test Cases Generation from UML Activity Diagram   

Author Name: A.V.K. Shanthi, G. Mohan Kumar   

Synopsis:   

In software development, testing plays an important role. Software testing is an important phase that ensures the quality of the software. This paper proposes a heuristic technique to test the software at the initial stage itself so that it will be easy for software testers to test the software in the later stages. Here test cases are an important entity or criteria by which software is being evaluated. Though Test cases can be generated by various approaches, Unified Modeling Languages attracts the recent researches and industrialists. This paper focus on test case generation by means of UML Activity diagram using Genetic Algorithm which best test cases are optimized and the test cases validated by prioritization.  The test cases generated using our approaches are capable of detecting more faults like synchronization faults, loop faults unlike the existing approaches A case study is used to illustrate the approach.