A prediction model for measurement-based timing analysis
Syed Abdul Baqi Shah, Muhammad Harunur Rashid, Muhammad Arif · 2017
Temporal testing of real-time software is critical. Search-based software engineering (SBSE) has shown its potential to assist the temporal testing by generating the test data. However, the generation of test data through SBSE requires multiple executions of the application program. Consequently, a huge amount of time is required to explore the given search space. This paper advocates the use of a prediction model in an SBSE-based test data generation methodology. The proposed prediction model eliminates the need of software execution during the fitness evaluation and hence reduces the overall time required for the generation of test data. The viability of the proposed approach is demonstrated with two different benchmarks.