Title of dissertation: Defining and Evaluating Test Suite Consolidation for Event Sequence-based Test Cases Penelope Brooks, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Dissertation directed by: Professor Atif M. Memon Department of Computer Science This research presents a new test suite consolidation technique, called CONTEST, for automated GUI testing. A new probabilistic model of the GUI is developed to all...

The optimal test case suite constructing problem is defined thus: given a set of test requirements and a test suite that satisfies all test requirements, find a subset of the test suite containing a minimum number of test cases that still satisfies all test requirements. Existing methods for solving test case suite generation problem do not guarantee that obtained test suite is optimal. In this...

Regression testing is a critical activity which occurs during the maintenance stage of the software lifecycle. However, it requires large amounts of test cases to assure the attainment of a certain degree of quality. As a result, test suite sizes may grow significantly. To address this issue, Test Suite Reduction techniques have been proposed. However, suite size reduction may lead to significa...

Testing is considered as integral to every phase of the OO life cycle to ensure a well devel oped test suite covering requirements design and structure Release criteria between the phases of development incorporate test suite addition and documentation allowing traceability from re quirements through coding to speci c test cases Software engineers can pool their knowledge via the test suite and...

Regression testing is the activity of retesting a program so as to ensure that no new errors have been introduced into the previously tested code. However this activity does not involve rerunning the entire test suite but selecting only a few test cases that exercise the changes. Suppose there is a program P and P’ is it’s modified version. The regression test suite so selected must be able to ...

Multi-criteria test-suite minimization aims to remove redundant test cases from a test suite based on some criteria such as code coverage, while trying to optimally maintain the capability of the reduced suite based on other criteria such as fault-detection effectiveness. Existing techniques addressing this problem with integer linear programming claim to produce optimal solutions. However, the...

The aim has been to minimize regression test suites while retaining fault detection capability of the test suite admissible. An appropriate minimized test suite should exercise different execution paths within a program. However, minimization of test suites may result in significant fault detection loss. To alleviate the loss, a new bi-criteria heuristic algorithm, using cluster analysis of tes...

Test Suite Param. Executable Test Suite UUT Converte the test purposes and the faults in a formal notation (FSM) Derive test cases Derive fault cases Observable Output Test Log Expected Output Test Operation Generate the Test Report Test Results Test Notation Standard Services Specification External Faults Preparation for Test

We present an architecture and implementation of a system that builds structured test suites for concept recognition systems. The system applies provided test case definitions to a target concept vocabulary, to generate test cases organised according to those definitions. Test case definitions capture particular characteristics, or produce regular transformations, of concept terms. The test sui...

The average percent of faults detected (APFD) and its variant versions are widely used to evaluate prioritized test suite’s efficiency. However, APFD is only available for classic test case prioritization, where all prioritized test suites under comparison contain the same number of test cases. If people overlook this phenomenon, they may obtain incorrect results in some non-classic scenarios, ...