Search for Prioritized Test Cases in Multi-Objective Environment During Web Application Testing

Regression testing is one of the most critical testing activities among software product verification activities. Nevertheless, resources and time constraints could inhibit the execution of a full regression test suite, hence leaving us in confusion on what test cases to run to preserve the high quality of software products. Different techniques can be applied to prioritize test cases in resource-constrained environments, such as manual selection, automated selection, or hybrid approaches. Different Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) have been used in this domain to find an optimal solution to minimize the cost of executing a regression test suite while obtaining maximum fault detection coverage as if the entire test suite was executed. MOEAs achieve this by selecting set of test cases and determining the order of their execution. In this paper, three Multi Objective Evolutionary Algorithms, namely, NSGA-II, IBEA and MoCell are used to solve test case prioritization problems using the fault detection rate and branch coverage of each test case. The paper intends to find out what’s the most effective algorithm to be used in test cases prioritization problems, and which algorithm is the most efficient one, and finally we examined if changing the fitness function would impose a change in results. Our experiment revealed that NSGA-II is the most effective and efficient MOEA; moreover, we found that changing the fitness function caused a significant reduction in evolution time, although it did not affect the coverage metric.

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Morpheus Web Testing: A Tool for Generating Test Cases for Widget Based Web Applications

Journal of Web Engineering ◽

10.13052/jwe1540-9589.2121 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Romulo de Almeida Neves ◽

Willian Massami Watanabe ◽

Rafael Oliveira

Keyword(s):

User Interfaces ◽

Web Application ◽

Web Applications ◽

Test Cases ◽

Code Coverage ◽

Web Testing ◽

The Cost ◽

Software Lifecycle ◽

The Web

Context: Widgets are reusable User Interfaces (UIs) components frequently delivered in Web applications.In the web application, widgets implement different interaction scenarios, such as buttons, menus, and text input.Problem: Tests are performed manually, so the cost associated with preparing and executing test cases is high.Objective: Automate the process of generating functional test cases for web applications, using intermediate artifacts of the web development process that structure widgets in the web application. The goal of this process is to ensure the quality of the software, reduce overall software lifecycle time and the costs associated with tests.Method:We elaborated a test generation strategy and implemented this strategy in a tool, Morpheus Web Testing. Morpheus Web Testing extracts widget information from Java Server Faces artifacts to generate test cases for JSF web applications. We conducted a case study for comparing Morpheus Web Testing with a state of the art tool (CrawlJax).Results: The results indicate evidence that the approach Morpheus Web Testing managed to reach greater code coverage compared to a CrawlJax.Conclusion: The achieved coverage values represent evidence that the results obtained from the proposed approach contribute to the process of automated test software engineering in the industry.

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Search for Prioritized Test Cases during Web Application Testing

International Journal of Applied Metaheuristic Computing ◽

10.4018/ijamc.2019040101 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 1-26 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Munish Khanna ◽

Naresh Chauhan ◽

Dilip Kumar Sharma

Keyword(s):

Web Application ◽

Web Applications ◽

Greedy Algorithms ◽

Regression Testing ◽

Test Sequence ◽

Test Case ◽

Test Cases ◽

Average Percentage ◽

Heuristic Approaches ◽

Better Than

Regression testing of evolving software is a critical constituent of the software development process. Due to resources constraints, test case prioritization is one of the strategies followed in regression testing during which a test case that satisfies predefined objectives the most, as the tester perceives, would be executed the earliest. In this study, all the experiments were performed on three web applications consisting of 65 to 100 pages with lines of code ranging from 5000 to 7000. Various state-of-the-art approaches such as, heuristic approaches, Greedy approaches, and meta heuristic approaches were applied so as to identify the prioritized test sequence which maximizes the value of average percentage of fault detection. Performance of these algorithms was compared using different parameters and it was concluded that the Artificial Bee Colony algorithm performs better than all. Two novel greedy algorithms are also proposed in the study, of which the goal is to smartly manage the state of a tie, where a tie exhibits the condition that all the test cases participating in the tie are of equal significance in achieving the objective. It has also been validated that the performance of these novel proposed algorithm(s) is better than that of traditionally followed greedy approach, most of the time.

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