TY - JOUR
T1 - Enhanced Multi-Verse Optimizer (TMVO) and Applying it in Test Data Generation for Path Testing
AU - Ryalat, Mohammad Hashem
AU - Fakhouri, Hussam N.
AU - Zraqou, Jamal
AU - Hamad, Faten
AU - Alzboun, Mamon S.
AU - Al hwaitat, Ahmad K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023/1/1
Y1 - 2023/1/1
N2 - Data testing is a vital part of the software development process, and there are various approaches available to improve the exploration of all possible software code paths. This study introduces two contributions. Firstly, an improved version of the Multi-verse Optimizer called Testing Multi-Verse Optimizer (TMVO) is proposed, which takes into account the movement of the swarm and the mean of the two best solutions in the universe. The particles move towards the optimal solution by using a mean-based algorithm model, which guarantees efficient exploration and exploitation. Secondly, TMVO is applied to automatically develop test cases for structural data testing, particularly path testing. Instead of automating the entire testing process, the focus is on centralizing automated procedures for collecting testing data. Automation for generating testing data is becoming increasingly popular due to the high cost of manual data generation. To evaluate the effectiveness of TMVO, it was tested on various well-known functions as well as five programs that presented unique challenges in testing. The test results indicated that TMVO performed better than the original MVO algorithm on the majority of the tested functions
AB - Data testing is a vital part of the software development process, and there are various approaches available to improve the exploration of all possible software code paths. This study introduces two contributions. Firstly, an improved version of the Multi-verse Optimizer called Testing Multi-Verse Optimizer (TMVO) is proposed, which takes into account the movement of the swarm and the mean of the two best solutions in the universe. The particles move towards the optimal solution by using a mean-based algorithm model, which guarantees efficient exploration and exploitation. Secondly, TMVO is applied to automatically develop test cases for structural data testing, particularly path testing. Instead of automating the entire testing process, the focus is on centralizing automated procedures for collecting testing data. Automation for generating testing data is becoming increasingly popular due to the high cost of manual data generation. To evaluate the effectiveness of TMVO, it was tested on various well-known functions as well as five programs that presented unique challenges in testing. The test results indicated that TMVO performed better than the original MVO algorithm on the majority of the tested functions
KW - multi-verse optimizer
KW - MVO
KW - optimization
KW - swarm intelligence
KW - testing
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U2 - 10.14569/IJACSA.2023.0140277
DO - 10.14569/IJACSA.2023.0140277
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85150946346
SN - 2158-107X
VL - 14
SP - 662
EP - 673
JO - International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications
JF - International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications
IS - 2
ER -