AUTOMATED SEQUENCING OF SOFTWARE TESTS USING DEPENDENCY INFORMATION

摘要

Dependency information can be used for automatic sequencing of software tests. For example, a computing device can receive dependency information indicating dependency relationships among software tests usable to test a target software item. The computing device can determine assignments of the software tests to different testing phases in a sequence of testing phases based on the dependency information. This may involve the computing device assigning each software test to a particular testing phase based on whether the software test is a dependency of or is a dependent on another software test, such that each testing phase in the sequence of testing phases is assigned a unique subset of software tests. The computing device can then generate an output indicating the assignments of the software tests to the different testing phases in the sequence of testing phases.