README.md

APPTS: An Adaptive Penalty based Parallel Tabu Search for Constrained Covering Array Generation

Usage

To use APPTS to generate a constrained covering array, execute the following command:

java -jar appts.jar <MODEL_NAME> <CONSTRAINT_NAME> <CUTOFFTIME>

For example, run

java -jar appts.jar demo.model demo.constraints 30

Note that we rely on iopg-ft.jar to generate the initial CA, so that it should be put into the same directory as appts.jar. We also provide the executable files of alternative versions of APPTS, i.e., DPTS, SPTS and APTS, and they can be used as the same way of appts.jar.

Source code

Please refer to the appts_source directory.

Experimental results

Please refer to the results.pdf file.