Enhancing the Performance of Coverage-Based Techniques in Test Case Prioritization

Authors

  • G. Bhavyasri  M.Tech Scholar, Department of CSE, JNTUA College of Engineering, Ananthapuramu, Andhra Pradesh, India
  • Prof. A. AnandaRao  Professor, Department of CSE, JNTUA College of Engineering, Ananthapuramu, Andhra Pradesh, India
  • Dr. P. Radhika Raju  Ad-hoc Assistant Professor, Department of CSE, JNTUA College of Engineering, Ananthapuramu, Andhra Pradesh, India

Keywords:

Regression Testing, Dependency Structures, Clustered Technique, Test Case Prioritization, Function Coverage Techniques.

Abstract

A presented approach is based on coverage techniques using closed dependency structure. Test cases are grouped in clusters from functional dependency. Closed functional dependency structure is applied to arrange test case in each cluster, Test case prioritization is done from function-coverage information. Results demonstrate that, proposed method performs better when compared to code coverage technique and some other coverage techniques in test case prioritization. Moreover, current approach capitulate 97% of average percentage of fault detection (APFD) and coefficient of determination in correlation as 0.8363, which enhances the performance of coverage-based techniques.

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2017-09-30

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Volume 2, Issue 5, September-October-2017

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G. Bhavyasri, Prof. A. AnandaRao, Dr. P. Radhika Raju, " Enhancing the Performance of Coverage-Based Techniques in Test Case Prioritization, IInternational Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology(IJSRCSEIT), ISSN : 2456-3307, Volume 2, Issue 5, pp.468-473, September-October-2017.