Mechanism for identification of duplicate test cases

Author

Sharma, Chhavi ; Singh, Sushil

Author_Institution

Inf. Technol., Jaipur, India

fYear

2014

fDate

9-11 May 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Selection of distinct test cases and elimination of duplicates are two major problems in software testing life cycle. In order to solve these and make the testing cost effective, a set of test case comparison metrics algorithms is introduced which will quantitatively calculate the difference between any arbitrary test case pair of an existing test suite. Metric values for test case pair are generated and combined to create one or more unique signature values. Using these signature values a cluster of similar test cases are generated, that can effectively test under time constraints.

Keywords

digital signatures; program testing; software metrics; distinct-test case selection; duplicate elimination; duplicate test case identification mechanism; quantitative analysis; signature values; similar test case cluster; software testing life cycle; test case comparison metrics algorithms; test case pair metric values; test suite; testing cost; time constraints; Measurement; Software; Software algorithms; FDE; Program Testing; Regression Testing; Test Case; Test Suite; Test Suite Reduction; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Recent Advances and Innovations in Engineering (ICRAIE), 2014

Conference_Location

Jaipur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4041-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICRAIE.2014.6909260

Filename

6909260