program analysis

The popularity of Python programming language has surged in recent years due to its increasing usage in Data Science. The availability of Python repositories in Github presents an opportunity for mining software repository research, e.g., suggesting the best practices in developing Data Science applications, identifying bug-patterns, recommending code enhancements, etc. To enable this research, we have created a new dataset that includes 1,558 mature Github projects that develop Python software for Data Science tasks.

Ant colony optimization (ACO) based algorithm has been proposed which will generate set of optimal paths and prioritize the paths. Additionally, the approach generates test data sequence within the domain to use as inputs of the generated paths. Proposed approach guarantees full software coverage with minimum redundancy.