Automating Test Data Generation for Testing Context-Aware Applications

Context-aware applications are emerging applications in the modern era of computing. These applications can determine and adapt to situational context to provide better user experience. Testing these applications is not straightforward and poses several challenges such as developing context-aware te...

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Main Authors: Mehmood, Mirza Aamir, Khan, M. N. A., Afzal, Wasif
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Context-Aware Applications
Context-aware services
Fires
Gas detectors
Software Testing
Temperature sensors
Test Data
Testing
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Summary:Context-aware applications are emerging applications in the modern era of computing. These applications can determine and adapt to situational context to provide better user experience. Testing these applications is not straightforward and poses several challenges such as developing context-aware test cases and generating test data etc. However, by employing model based testing technique, testing process for context-aware applications can be automated. To achieve maximum degree of automation, it is necessary to automate model transformation, test data generation and test cases execution. To execute test cases, test data is required and developing test data for context-aware applications is a challenging task. The aim of this study is to address this issue; thus, we propose automated test data generation for functional testing of context-aware applications. This automated test data generation can reduce testing time and cost, thus enabling test engineers to execute more testing cycles to attain higher degree of test coverage.
ISSN:2327-0594
DOI:10.1109/ICSESS.2018.8663920