Research on Automatic Generation of Test Cases Based on Genetic Algorithm

Abstract

Automatic generation of test cases is a key problem in software testing, and also a hot issue in software testing research. After introducing the existing methods of automatic generation of software test cases, this paper focuses on the automatic generation method of test cases based on genetic algorithm. Summarizes the basic idea of the method and basic procedure, method of automatic generation of test cases according to the different classified as random method, static method and dynamic method of three categories, and combined with the literature analysis of the three kinds of methods and techniques to their characteristics, compares their ad-vantages and disadvantages. Finally, the shortcomings are pointed out, and the development direction is discussed.