Coverage-based test case prioritisation: An industrial case study

Daniel Di Nardo; Nadia Alshahwan; Lionel Briand; Yvan Labiche

doi:10.1109/ICST.2013.27

Coverage-based test case prioritisation: An industrial case study

Daniel Di Nardo, Nadia Alshahwan, Lionel Briand, Yvan Labiche

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Abstract

This paper presents an industrial case study of coverage-based prioritisation techniques on a real world system with real regression faults. The study evaluates four common and different test case prioritisation techniques and examines the effects of using various coverage criteria on the fault detection rates of the prioritised test suites. The results show that prioritisation techniques that are based on additional coverage with finer grained coverage criteria perform significantly better in fault detection rates. The study also reveals that using modification information does not significantly enhance fault detection rates.

Original language	English
Pages	302-311
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICST.2013.27
Publication status	Published - 2013
Externally published	Yes
Event	IEEE 6th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2013 - Luxembourg, Luxembourg Duration: 18 May 2013 → 20 May 2013

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Conference	IEEE 6th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2013
Country/Territory	Luxembourg
City	Luxembourg
Period	18/05/13 → 20/05/13

Keywords

industrial case study
regression testing
test case prioritisation

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