Random Grammar-Based Testing for Covering All Non-terminals

Aloïs Dreyfus (1) , Pierre-Cyrille Héam (1) , Olga Kouchnarenko (1)

1 FEMTO-ST - Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique, Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (UMR 6174)

In the context of software testing, generating complex data inputs is frequently performed using a grammar-based specification. For combinatorial reasons, an exhaustive generation of the data - of a given size - is practically impossible, and most approaches are either based on random techniques or on coverage criteria. In this paper, we show how to combine these two techniques by biasing the random generation in order to optimise the probability of satisfying a coverage criterion.

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

Aloïs Dreyfus, Pierre-Cyrille Héam, Olga Kouchnarenko. Random Grammar-Based Testing for Covering All Non-terminals. CSTVA 2013, 5-th Int. Workshop on Constraints in Software Testing Verification and Analysis. Held in conjunction with ICST 2013, Jan 2013, Luxembourg. pp.210 - 215. ⟨hal-00940429⟩