Automated Test Generation

Education facts

Code: DVA481

About this course The increasing competition pressure for rapid introduction of new or modified system versions is posing problems to properly testing software. These pressures have led many organizations to begin transitioning their development processes to agile development and continuous integration, greatly shortening the time available to conduct comprehensive testing. In contrast to learning how to do manual testing, in this course you will learn how to generate tests automatically in the sense that test creation satisfying a given test goal or given requirement is performed automatically. This course provides an understanding of automating software testing using program analysis with the goal of intelligently and algorithmically creating tests. The course covers search-based test generation, combinatorial and random testing while highlighting the challenges associated with the use of automatic test generation. You will learn * Understand algorithmic test generation techniques and their use in developer testing and continuous integration. * Understand how to automatically generate test cases with assertions. * Have a working knowledge and experience in static and dynamic generation of tests. * Have an overview knowledge in search-based testing and the use of machine learning for test generation.

Entry requirements

120 credits, of which 80 credits in Computer Science and/or Computer Engineering. In addition, Swedish course B/Swedish course 3 and English course A/English course 6 are required. For courses given entirely in English exemption is made from the requirement in Swedish course B/Swedish course 3.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Automated Test Generation

  Mälardalen University

  Start date: 10 November 2025

  End date: 18 January 2026

  Pace of study: 17 %