Amalgamation of Automated Testing and Data Mining: A Novel Approach in Software Testing
Software engineering comprehends several disciplines devoted to prevent and remedy malfunctions and to warrant adequate behavior. Testing is a widespread validation approach in industry, but it is still largely ad hoc, expensive, and unpredictably effective. In today\'s industry, the design of software tests is mostly based on the testers\' expertise, while test automation tools are limited to execution of pre-planned tests only. Evaluation of test outputs is also associated with a considerable effort by human testers who often have improper knowledge of the requirements specification. This manual approach to software testing results in heavy losses to the world\'s economy. This paper proposes the potential use of data mining algorithms for automated induction of functional requirements from execution data. The induced data mining models of tested software can be utilized for recovering missing and incomplete specifications, designing a minimal set of regression tests, and evaluating the correctness of software outputs when testing new, potentially inconsistent releases of the system.
Keywords: Automation, bagging, Data Mining
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Sarita Sharma
Ms. Sarita Sharma did her Master in Computer Application from IGNOU, New Delhi, India, She did her M.phil (Computer Science) from Ch. Devi Lal University,Sirsa , India and is pusuing Ph.D from Singhania University,Rajasthan, India. She is presently working as Associate Professor in Deptt. Of Computer Science, DAV Institute of Management , India. She has guided more than 90 students in their Projects and has published a number of papers in National/International journals. She is a member of Computer Society of India. Her areas of interest include Software Engineering, Data Mining, Relational Databases, Computer Languages etc. She has about 15 years of teaching experience.
Anamika Bhargava
Ms. Anamika Sharma did her Master in computer Science from Gurukul University Haridwar in 1998 and pursuing Ph.D in computer Science from Singhania University Rajasthan. She is having about 13 years of teaching experience of postgraduate courses. She has guided more than 70 students in their project and published number of papers in national/International journals. She is a member of Computer Society of India .Her main Area of research include Computer Graphics, Data mining, Software testing and Quality assurance and object oriented Analysis and Design. At Present she is working in DAV Institute of Management, Faridabad as Associate Professor in Computer Science Dept.
Sarita Sharma
Ms. Sarita Sharma did her Master in Computer Application from IGNOU, New Delhi, India, She did her M.phil (Computer Science) from Ch. Devi Lal University,Sirsa , India and is pusuing Ph.D from Singhania University,Rajasthan, India. She is presently working as Associate Professor in Deptt. Of Computer Science, DAV Institute of Management , India. She has guided more than 90 students in their Projects and has published a number of papers in National/International journals. She is a member of Computer Society of India. Her areas of interest include Software Engineering, Data Mining, Relational Databases, Computer Languages etc. She has about 15 years of teaching experience.
Anamika Bhargava
Ms. Anamika Sharma did her Master in computer Science from Gurukul University Haridwar in 1998 and pursuing Ph.D in computer Science from Singhania University Rajasthan. She is having about 13 years of teaching experience of postgraduate courses. She has guided more than 70 students in their project and published number of papers in national/International journals. She is a member of Computer Society of India .Her main Area of research include Computer Graphics, Data mining, Software testing and Quality assurance and object oriented Analysis and Design. At Present she is working in DAV Institute of Management, Faridabad as Associate Professor in Computer Science Dept.
