Refinement & Reduction of Cases for Regression Testing to Measure Software Reliability

Abstract

Requirements are very important features for the designing of any software application. Test suite creation is a big and hectic task for the Software Quality Analyst. We propose to develop a technique for analysis of Covered Requirement and its impact on the designed Test suite. The requirement associated with the test cases accepts specification like execution time, costing for minimization of test suite. The specification analyzer compares the information about the techniques like Precision, Efficiency, Inclusiveness and Generality. By reducing the test suite size, we can reduce the execution cost and time, validation and management of the test cases from the suite for future releases of the software and able to maintain the fault detection capability by reusing the refined test cases. The requirement coverage will increase time-effectiveness in sorting the features of the application and reduces the duplicacy. An improved rate of testing activity will provide faster feedback of the system under test.

Keywords: Requirement Coverage, Retesting & Regression Testing, Data Flow Technique and Suite Refinement

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