Instance Space Analysis of Search-Based Software Testing

Abstract

Search-based software testing (SBST) is now a mature area, with numerous techniques developed to tackle the challenging task of software testing. SBST techniques have shown promising results and have been successfully applied in the industry to automatically generate test cases for large and complex software systems. Their effectiveness, however, has been shown to be problem dependent. In this paper, we revisit the problem of objective performance evaluation of SBST techniques in light of recent methodological advances - in the form of Instance Space Analysis (ISA) - enabling the strengths and weaknesses of SBST techniques to be visualised and assessed across the broadest possible space of p..