A Survey on Automatic Test Data Generation
Jon Edvardsson · 2002
In order to reduce the high cost of manual software testing and at the same time to increase the reliability of the testing processes researchers and practitioners have tried to automate it. One of the most important components in a testing environment is an automatic test data generator --- a system that automatically generates test data for a given program. Through the years several attempts in automatic test data generations have been made. The focus of this article is program-based generation, where the generation starts from the actual programs. Thus, techniques such as GUI-based and syntax-based test data generation are not an issue in this article.