WSEAS Transactions on Computers
Print ISSN: 1109-2750, E-ISSN: 2224-2872
Volume 13, 2014
Frequent Segment Clustering of Test Cases for Test Suite Reduction
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Abstract: Execution profiles are indicators for code coverage of program; this has been demonstrated by researchers on a large scale through their contributions on the same. Test Suite reduction is a feature which achieves code coverage with minimum number of test cases ensuring that all code items have been tested. It is a Non-deterministic Polynomial-time Complete (NP-Complete) problem. Few approaches like Greedy approach, Harrold,Soffa and Gupta(HGS) approach have been used in literature which are good approaches. Current work achieves similar milestones with reduced test cases as well. This paper presents Maximal frequency item set clustering and sequencing of similar test cases, residue code requirements based test case reduction and modification based test case selection. In the current work, few interesting results were found, where in similar program trace test cases were greatly reduced ensuring high code coverage percentage during testing. Fault detection can be tuned by selecting test cases from similar groups.
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Keywords: Clustering, Test Suite Reduction, Test case coverage, Program Profiles, Test case Selection, Regression Testing
Pages: 368-380
WSEAS Transactions on Computers, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1109-2750 / 2224-2872, Volume 13, 2014, Art. #32