Scoring mechanism for automatically generated test programs

Data processing: structural design – modeling – simulation – and em – Modeling by mathematical expression

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C703S006000, C706S013000, C714S025000

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ABSTRACT:
A test program for a data processing apparatus is produced using a genetic algorithm which mutates instances being ordered lists of program instructions within a population forming the test program. The populations are evaluated using a metric by which the population as a whole is scored for its stimulation of predetermined functional points within the data processing apparatus when a determination is being made as to whether or not a particular instance should be swapped in or out of the population.

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