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<journal-id>1405-5546</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Computación y Sistemas]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Comp. y Sist.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1405-5546</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro de Investigación en Computación]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1405-55462017000300503</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.13053/cys-21-3-2716</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Modelo para la generación automática de pruebas tempranas basadas en búsquedas]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Model for Automatic Generation of Search-based Early Tests]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
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<surname><![CDATA[Delgado Dapena]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Martha Dunia]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Macías Rojas]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Arloys]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Larrosa Uribazo]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Danay]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Verona Marcos]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Sandra]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Fernández Oliva]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Perla Beatriz]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana &#8220;José Antonio Echeverría&#8221; Facultad de Ingeniería Informática ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[La Habana ]]></addr-line>
<country>Cuba</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>21</volume>
<numero>3</numero>
<fpage>503</fpage>
<lpage>513</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1405-55462017000300503&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1405-55462017000300503&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1405-55462017000300503&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: En el presente trabajo se presenta una propuesta para la generación de pruebas tempranas de software. La propuesta incluye las actividades para la ejecución de pruebas en un entorno productivo, así como el modelo de optimización que reduce la cantidad de casos de prueba funcionales considerando criterios de cobertura de escenario y utilizando algoritmos de búsqueda heurística. Adicionalmente el modelo contiene un conjunto de herramientas basadas en búsqueda que dan soporte a la generación de casos de pruebas funcionales.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: This article presents a proposal for the generation of software early tests. It includes: activities for test execution in a production environment, as well as the optimization model that reduces the number of functional test cases considering scenario covering criteria and using heuristic search algorithms. In addition, the model contains a collection of search-based tools that support the generation of functional test cases.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Pruebas funcionales]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[generación automática de casos de prueba]]></kwd>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Functional tests]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[automatic generation of test cases]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[metaheuristics algorithms]]></kwd>
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