An Efficient APHT Technique for RequirementBased Test Case Prioritization

An Efficient APHT Technique for Requirement-Based Test Case Prioritization

  IJETT-book-cover  International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT)          
  
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Volume-69 Issue-4
Year of Publication : 2021
Authors : Omdev Dahiya, Kamna Solanki
DOI :  10.14445/22315381/IJETT-V69I4P230

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MLA Style: Omdev Dahiya, Kamna Solanki  "An Efficient APHT Technique for Requirement-Based Test Case Prioritization" International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology 69.4(2021):215-227. 

APA Style:Omdev Dahiya, Kamna Solanki. An Efficient APHT Technique for Requirement-Based Test Case Prioritization  International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology, 69(4),215-227.

Abstract
Software testing is carried out to ensure that the developed software product is fault-free and is meeting the expected requirement criteria. If there are defects in the software, then testing will help in uncovering them so that they can be timely fixed. This will improve the quality and reliability of the software, thus providing customer satisfaction as well as time and cost-saving by timely fixing the identified faults. There are various techniques for testing the software. With limited time and budget, exhaustive testing is not possible. One of the efficient techniques is regression testing, which helps in testing the modified part of the software. One of the approaches for regression testing is Test Case Prioritization (TCP) which executes test cases in a priority order instead of executing the whole test suite with a motive to enhance the rate of fault detection as software is developed based on its requirements so it is beneficial to test those requirements first which are complex as they will be the ones where there is maximum possibility of occurrence of faults. This study has worked towards proposing a new Ant colony and Particle swarm optimization Hybrid Technique (APHT) for requirements-based test case prioritization. For this, an industrial case study is taken, and faults are injected into it based on various requirements factors. To show the effectiveness of our proposed technique, a metric known as Average Percentage of Faults Detected (APFD) and average computation are taken, and their values are compared with other existing approaches. The results obtained showed the worthiness of the proposed requirement-based TCP Technique.

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Keywords
Requirement-based Test Case Prioritization, Ant colony and Particle swarm optimization Hybrid Technique (APHT), Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Software Testing.