Software Coverage Analysis: Black Box Approach Using ANT System

2. Background Work

Before handing over the software to the client, the developers must know whether the software works satisfactorily or not. In other words, the product must be tested thoroughly and further care must be taken that all the requirements in the software specification are incorporated and tested well. Thus, software coverage is important as a part of software testing to verify and validate the product. It is very cumbersome and tiring task if it is done manually. To automate this process, AI algorithms (Zhang et al., 2005) are very promising approach in this regard.

The behavior of software can be easily represented by state model, which is a graph representation in mathematical terms. In this regard, Ants can prove to be a possible candidate to trace the states along the edges and thus, cover the entire State chart, giving us suitable paths.