Automatic test data generator: A tool based on search-based techniques

Software Testing is the most time consuming activity in the software development lifecycle. It is impossible to test everything. Hence, several automated test data generation techniques have been introduced in recent times in order to reduce the effort spent during testing. Search based techniques have been found to be more efficient than normal or random testing. In this paper, we propose to demonstrate the designing framework, implementation and explore the capabilities of a tool to aid in the generation of test data. Our tool is based on generating the optimal set of test cases based on the user defined coverage criteria. We have implemented the system in C++ language and have restricted ourselves to the use of command line interface. We provide the path as well as the test cases generated to the tester making his work of testing a lot easier.