Test case design based technique for the improvement of test case selection in software maintenance

摘要

Test case selection is the maintenance technique regarding the concept of choosing the appropriate representative of the modified program that has to be changed depending upon the new requirements added for the next modification. The main problem of updating software is the amounts of the test suite that is generated for the tests increases, which can drop the performance of using the new code that added to the previous program. According to this, execution and testing time will increase, including the complexity of integrating the codes also increase. Therefore, the test suite minimization approaches are offered to solve these problems. The objective of proposing the design based technique is to refine the competency of using test case selection to control the large programs by applying four algorithms, which are testing test case, classification, deletion, and selection. The result of determining the size reduction is greater than random selection, general regression technique, and test case prioritization as about 28.00%, 17.00%, and 11.00% approximately.