Zhonghao Guo^*, Xinyue Xu, Xiangxian Chen

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.48, No.2, pp. 479-509, 2024, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.043932

Abstract In software testing, the quality of test cases is crucial, but manual generation is time-consuming. Various automatic test case generation methods exist, requiring careful selection based on program features. Current evaluation methods compare a limited set of metrics, which does not support a larger number of metrics or consider the relative importance of each metric to the final assessment. To address this, we propose an evaluation tool, the Test Case Generation Evaluator (TCGE), based on the learning to rank (L2R) algorithm. Unlike previous approaches, our method comprehensively evaluates algorithms by considering multiple metrics, resulting in a more reasoned assessment. The… More >

Asadullah Shaikh^1,*, Syed Rizwan², Abdullah Alghamdi¹, Noman Islam², M.A. Elmagzoub¹, Darakhshan Syed²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.3, pp. 1529-1546, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.021163

Abstract Fault localization is one of the main tasks of software debugging. Developers spend a lot of time, cost, and effort to locate the faults correctly manually. For reducing this effort, many automatic fault localization techniques have been proposed, which inputs test suites and outputs a sorted list of faulty entities of the program. For further enhancement in this area, we developed a system called SILearning, which is based on invariant analysis. It learns from some existing fixed bugs to locate faulty methods in the program. It combines machine-learned ranking, program invariant differences, and spectrum-based fault localization (SBFL). Using the execution… More >

Jen-Yuan Yeh^∗

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.33, No.1, pp. 41-52, 2018, DOI:10.32604/csse.2018.33.041

Abstract As a crucial task in information retrieval, ranking defines the preferential order among the retrieved documents for a given query. Supervised learning has recently been dedicated to automatically learning ranking models by incorporating various models into one effective model. This paper proposes a novel supervised learning method, in which instances are represented as bags of contexts of features, instead of bags of features. The method applies rank-order correlations to measure the correlation relationships between features. The feature vectors of instances, i.e., the 1st-order raw feature vectors, are then mapped into the feature correlation space via projection to derive the context-level… More >