A Learn-to-Rank Method for Model-Based Regression Test Case Prioritization
| Autor: | Ting Shu, Zuohua Ding, Yechao Huang |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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test case prioritization
General Computer Science Computer science 02 engineering and technology computer.software_genre Fault detection and isolation Software Unified Modeling Language learn to rank Regression testing 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering General Materials Science computer.programming_language business.industry Extended finite-state machine General Engineering model based testing 020207 software engineering Software maintenance Random forest Test case EFSM 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing Data mining lcsh:Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering business computer lcsh:TK1-9971 |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Access, Vol 9, Pp 16365-16382 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2169-3536 |
| Popis: | Regression testing plays an indispensable role in software maintenance, which refers to retest the software following modifications to determine whether the changes have introduced new faults. However, regression testing requires massive amounts of effort to achieve a high fault detection rate. To address this issue, the test case prioritization technique is used to improve the fault detection rate by adjusting the execution order of test cases. For model-based regression test case prioritization, existing approaches have been developed using the single aspect of model-related information extracted from the previous executed test cases. In this paper, a novel learn-to-rank technique is proposed to prioritize test cases by combining the multidimensional features of Extended Finite State Machine (EFSM) under test to improve fault detection rate. Specifically, our method utilizes the random forest algorithm to combine multiple existing heuristic prioritization methods. Detailed experiments are conducted to evaluate the proposed method’s performance in terms of Average Percentage Fault Detected (APFD). The experimental results show that the mean APFD value of our method reaches 0.884 for five subject EFSMs, which is 33.9% higher than the compared methods. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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