International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science (IJITCS)
IJITCS Vol. 7, No. 4, 8 Mar. 2015
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An Approach for Test Case Prioritization Based on Three Factors
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Author(s)
Manika Tyagi
1,*
Sona Malhotra
1
Index Terms
Regression Testing, Test Case Prioritization, Average Percentage of Fault Detected (APFD) Metric, Severity
Abstract
The main aim of regression testing is to test the modified software during maintenance level. It is an expensive activity, and it assures that modifications performed in software are correct. An easiest strategy to regression testing is to re-test all test cases in a test suite, but due to limitation of resource and time, it is inefficient to implement. Therefore, it is necessary to discover the techniques with the goal of increasing the regression testing’s effectiveness, by arranging test cases of test suites according to some objective criteria. Test case prioritization intends to arrange test cases in such a manner that higher priority test cases execute earlier than test cases of lower priority according to some performance criteria. This paper presents an approach to prioritize regression test cases based on three factors which are rate of fault detection [6], percentage of fault detected and risk detection ability. The proposed approach is compared with different prioritization techniques such as no prioritization, reverse prioritization, random prioritization, and also with previous work of kavitha et al [6], using APFD (average percentage of fault detected) metric. The results represent that proposed approach outperformed all approaches mentioned above.
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Manika Tyagi, Sona Malhotra, "An Approach for Test Case Prioritization Based on Three Factors", International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science(IJITCS), vol.7, no.4, pp.79-86, 2015. DOI:10.5815/ijitcs.2015.04.09
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