WSEAS Transactions on Computers
Print ISSN: 1109-2750, E-ISSN: 2224-2872
Volume 14, 2017
Application of Ant Colony Algorithm in Regression Testing of Web Applications –A Novel Approach
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Abstract: Regression testing is one of the most arduous and challenging activity which has been implemented during maintenance phase of the software development life cycle. With the ever increasing demand of updating the web applications to meet the never ending user’s expectations and to survive in highly competitive environment gives rise to inspiration of regression testing of web application. But due to a range of constraints like monetary issues, short span of time and availability of skilled human resources; it becomes very much impractical for comprehensive regression testing of web application. In this proposed approach the user sessions which are traced out from logs of the server act as an input to the system .With the help of Ant Colony Optimization algorithm (ACO) the proposed approach will generate minimum number of test cases fulfilling certain predefined objectives. Moreover in the proposed approach, with the help of ACO and user sessions, minimum number of test cases will be generated for regression testing of the web application in hand.
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Keywords: Ant Colony Algorithm, User Session inspired web application testing, Test case generation, Test case Optimization, Web Application Testing, Test case Reduction and Regression Testing
Pages: 293-305
WSEAS Transactions on Computers, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1109-2750 / 2224-2872, Volume 14, 2017, Art. #34