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2010-09-01

Using case-based reasoning for generating functional test procedures

Propuesta de utilización del razonamiento basado en casos para la recuperación de procedimientos de prueba funcionales

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15446/ing.investig.v30n3.18183

Keywords:

case based reasoning, software engineering, software quality, functional testing, artificial intelligence (en)
razonamiento basado en casos, ingeniería de software, calidad de software, pruebas funcionales, inteligencia artificial (es)

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  • Martha Dunia Delgado Dapena Insitituto Superior Politécnico “José Antonio Echevarria” (CUJAE)
  • Yucely López Trujillo Insitituto Superior Politécnico “José Antonio Echevarria” (CUJAE)
  • Indira Chávez Valiente Insitituto Superior Politécnico “José Antonio Echevarria”

This paper presents a proposal for storage structure and retrieval mechanisms used for implementing case-based reasoning (CBR) in generating functional test procedures in software projects. This proposal was based on software project functional requirements and sets out the proposed algorithms for considering the similarity between each pair of projects as well as those leading to adapting the solution found in the case base.

En este trabajo se presenta una propuesta de estructura de almacenamiento y los mecanismos de recuperación utilizados para aplicar el razonamiento basado en casos (RBC) en la generación de procedimientos de prueba funcionales en proyectos de software. Esta propuesta parte de los requisitos funcionales del proyecto de software y en ella se enuncian los algoritmos propuestos para considerar la semejanza entre cada par de proyectos, así como los que permiten adaptar la solución encontrada en la base de casos a las características de los nuevos proyectos.

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