Research And Application Of A Test Case Generation System Based On Exploratory Testing

Software test is the key to ensure the software quality, improve the software reliability and lower the software development cost during the software development. The test case generation is an important aspect of software test. The efficiency and coverage rate of the software test are directly depend on the quality of the test case, so the test case generation technology is one the key factor that contributes to the success of software test.Exploratory Testing is a new software test technology which is totally different from traditional software test mothers. Exploratory Testing is defined as concurrent product exploration, test design and test execution, and it claims to embrace change. Since the Exploratory Testing can find software Bugs with high efficiency, it is widely researched. And the core of this paper is focused on an implement of a test case generation system based on Exploratory Testing.Questions Pattern (Q-Patterns) is a special kind of pattern that collects all the questions related to a particular aspect of the software. The Q-Patterns provides a new solution of software test case generation.This paper firstly introduces the correlation knowledge theories of traditional software test as well as Exploratory Testing. Based on the research of test case generation and Q-Patterns theories, the author design a test case generation system. The core of the system is to use Q-Patterns and the history Bug information of the programmers, so that testers can locate the Bug and design test case efficiently.This paper separates the new system into three parts: the Q-Patterns management part,the programmers' history Bug information management part as well as the test case generation management part. The three parts cooperate efficiently using the keywords of Q-Patterns that stored on database as interface.