Abstract
The growth of software engineering can justifiably be attributed to the advancement in Software Testing. The quality of the test cases to be used in Software Testing determines the quality of software testing. This is the reason why test cases are primarily crafted manually. However, generating test cases manually is an intense, complex and time consuming task. There is, therefore, an immediate need for an automated test data generator which accomplishes the task with the same effectiveness as manual crafting of test cases. The work presented intends to automate the process of Test Path Generation with a goal of attaining maximum coverage. The work presents a technique using Cellular Automata (CA) for generating test paths. The work opens the window of Cellular Automata to Software Testing. The approach has been verified on programs selected in accordance with their Lines of Code and utility. The results obtained have been verified.