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Abstract | ||
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Any changes for maintenance or evolution purposes may break existing working features, or may violate the requirements established in the previous software releases. Regression testing is essential to avoid these problems, but it may be ended up with executing many time-consuming test cases. This paper tries to address prioritizing requirements-based regression test cases. To this end, system-level testing is focused on two practical issues in industrial environments: i) addressing multiple goals regarding quality, cost and effort in a project, and ii) using non-code metrics due to the lack of detailed code metrics in some situations. This paper reports a goal-driven practice at Research In Motion (RIM) towards prioritizing requirements-based test cases regarding these issues. Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) is adopted in identifying metrics for prioritization. Two sample goals are discussed to demonstrate the approach: detecting bugs earlier and maintaining testing effort. We use two releases of a prototype Web-based email client to conduct a set of experiments based on the two mentioned goals. Finally, we discuss lessons learned from applying the goal-driven approach and experiments, and we propose few directions for future research. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2011 | 10.1109/CSMR.2011.46 | CSMR |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
prioritizing requirements-based regression test,system-level testing,requirements-based regression test case,goal-driven practice,non-code metrics,detailed code metrics,goal-driven approach,regression testing,time-consuming test case,testing effort,requirements-based test case,computer bugs,regression analysis,software maintenance,software metrics,goal question metric,requirement prioritization,testing,software regression testing,measurement | Data mining,Systems engineering,GQM,Computer science,Software bug,Regression testing,Software,Test case,Requirement prioritization,Software metric,Software maintenance | Conference |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
1944-2793 | 4 | 0.39 |
References | Authors | |
6 | 6 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazeiar Salehie | 1 | 831 | 34.30 |
| Sen Li | 2 | 40 | 8.08 |
| Ladan Tahvildari | 3 | 1408 | 68.51 |
| Rozita Dara | 4 | 6 | 1.81 |
| Shimin Li | 5 | 54 | 6.92 |
| Mark Moore | 6 | 4 | 0.39 |