Optimization of testing time in RUP: A group testing approach

Testing is the most important effort consuming the step of software development life cycle. Mostly the testing begins in the last stages of development and schedule slippage is adjusted with little testing. In Rational Unified Process (RUP), testing is performed throughout during development process. Test is one of the discipline of Rational Unified Process (RUP) among its nine disciplines where testing is performed in all four phases of RUP. In Construction phase the component are tested separately and then move to Transition phase, where beta testing take place. Testing an individual object is a time consuming approach of Rational Unified Process. The concept of group testing is introduced as a sub-discipline of test discipline. In proposed approach a group of similar components are tested together in group form to minimize the testing time. All though testing is involved from very beginning in RUP in order to develop error free component. But still a mechanism to test individual component takes a lot of time. The proposed model saves testing time when accurate developed components are tested in group form.