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A tool for combination-based prioritization and reduction of user-session-based test suites

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Sreedevi Sampath,

Renee C. Bryce,

Sachin Jain,

Schuyler ManchesterAuthors Info & Claims

ICSM '11: Proceedings of the 2011 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance

Pages 574 - 577

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2011.6080833

Published: 25 September 2011 Publication History

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Test suite prioritization and reduction are two approaches to managing large test suites. They play an important role in regression testing, where a large number of tests accumulate over time from previous versions of the system. Accumulation of tests is exacerbated in user-session-based testing of web applications, where field usage data is continually logged and converted into test cases. This paper presents a tool that allows testers to easily collect, prioritize, and reduce user-session-based test cases. Our tool provides four contributions: (1) guidance to users on how to configure their web server to log important usage information, (2) automated parsing of web logs into XML formatted test cases that can be used by test replay tools, (3) automated prioritization of test cases by length-based and combinatorial-based criteria, and (4) automated reduction of test cases by combinatorial coverage.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1002/stvr.1599

A tool for combination-based prioritization and reduction of user-session-based test suites
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis

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ICSM '11: Proceedings of the 2011 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance

September 2011

594 pages

ISBN:9781457706639

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Satish PNikhil PRangarajan K(2018)A Test Prioritization Algorithm That Cares for "Don't Care" Values and Higher Order Combinatorial CoverageACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes10.1145/3149485.314951042:4(1-9)Online publication date: 11-Jan-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3149485.3149510
Khan SLee SAhmad RAkhunzada AChang V(2016)A survey on Test Suite Reduction frameworks and toolsInternational Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2016.05.02536:6(963-975)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2016.05.025
Wang WSampath SLei YKacker RKuhn RLawrence J(2016)Using combinatorial testing to build navigation graphs for dynamic web applicationsSoftware Testing, Verification & Reliability10.1002/stvr.159926:4(318-346)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1002/stvr.1599

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