Software Testing Verification and Reliability· 2012Q2· Review
Regression testing minimization, selection and prioritization: a survey
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This survey consolidates research on techniques to reduce the cost of regression testing by minimizing, selecting, or prioritizing test cases, addressing the challenge of ever-growing test suites in evolving software.
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Key points
- Regression testing is crucial for ensuring software changes don't introduce defects.
- Growing test suites necessitate methods to reduce execution costs.
- Techniques surveyed include minimization, selection, and prioritization of test cases.
- The paper identifies open problems and future research avenues.
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Abstract
Regression testing is a testing activity that is performed to provide confidence that changes do not harm the existing behaviour of the software. Test suites tend to grow in size as software evolves, often making it too costly to execute entire test suites. A number of different approaches have been studied to maximize the value of the accrued test suite: minimization, selection and prioritization. Test suite minimization seeks to eliminate redundant test cases in order to reduce the number of tests to run. Test case selection seeks to identify the test cases that are relevant to some set of recent changes. Test case prioritization seeks to order test cases in such a way that early fault detection is maximized. This paper surveys each area of minimization, selection and prioritization technique and discusses open problems and potential directions for future research. Copyright (C) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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