A Sound Assessment of Test Suite Minimization Techniques
Author : Fayaz Ahmad KhanVolume 7 No.2 July-September 2018 pp 87-91
Abstract
During software development, testing and re-testing occurs frequently to ensure that the software is working correctly before and after modifications. To carry out an effective testing process a test suite is created and executed to detect the faults in the existing code as well as in the modified code. The manual approach of test suite creation and execution is time consuming and labour intensive task as compared to automatically generated test data or test suite. The automatic test data generation is supposed to be an effective way, but a lot of redundant test cases are generated that increase the time, effort and cost of testing. Therefore, test suite minimization techniques are used to further minimize or reduce the number of test cases by selecting a subset from an initially random and large test suite to test the code before as well as after modification. In this study, a comprehensive analysis of the different test suite minimization techniques is presented in order to extend the existing studies and to propose new ideas in this direction.
Keywords
Software Testing, Regression Testing, Test Suite Minimization
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