Paper Info
Title
sOrTES: A Supportive Tool for Stochastic Scheduling of Manual Integration Test Cases.
Abstract
The main goal of software testing is to detect as many hidden bugs as possible in the final software product before release. Generally, a software product is tested by executing a set of test cases, which can be performed manually or automatically. The number of test cases which are required to test a software product depends on several parameters such as the product type, size, and complexity. Executing all test cases with no particular order can lead to waste of time and resources. Test optimization can provide a partial solution for saving time and resources which can lead to the final software product being released earlier. In this regard, test case selection, prioritization, and scheduling can be considered as possible solutions for test optimization. Most of the companies do not provide direct support for ranking test cases on their own servers. In this paper, we introduce, apply, and evaluate sOrTES as our decision support system for manual integration of test scheduling. sOrTES is a Python-based supportive tool which schedules manual integration test cases which are written in a natural language text. The feasibility of sOrTES is studied by an empirical evaluation which has been performed on a railway use-case at Bombardier Transportation, Sweden. The empirical evaluation indicates that around 40% of testing failure can be avoided by using the proposed execution schedules by sOrTES, which leads to an increase in the requirements coverage of up to 9.6%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2893209
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Software testing,integration testing,test optimization,decision support systems,stochastic test scheduling,manual testing,scheduler algorithm,dependency
Job shop scheduling,Integration testing,Computer science,Scheduling (computing),Product type,Schedule,Software,Test case,Dynamic priority scheduling,Reliability engineering,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7
2169-3536
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sahar Tahvili1113.31
Rita Pimentel200.34
Wasif Afzal338830.92
Marcus Ahlberg400.34
Eric Fornander510.71
Markus Bohlin67714.24