A Hybrid Approach of Regression-Testing-Based Requirement Prioritization of Web Applications

Author(s):  
Varun Gupta

The chapter gives a hybrid approach for prioritization of software requirements by considering regression testing efforts as one of the criteria. The prioritization is performed against the prioritized decision aspects. The chapter gives software engineers a technique for prioritizing both requirements and aspects. This technique considers regression testing effort as one of important parameters during requirement prioritization thereby reducing the regression testing effort. This technique is applied on live web application of “virtual classroom” and the results were promising. The technique resulted in decision aspect prioritization thereby leading to effective requirement prioritization and lower regression testing efforts.

Author(s):  
Varun Gupta ◽  
D.S. Chauhan ◽  
Kamlesh Dutta

Web 2.0 applications are complex information systems. Likewise any desktop applications, web applications are complex and require effective requirement prioritization preceded by effective decision aspect prioritization by involving diverse stakeholders. During the release of new increments, objective is to provide value to the software and simultaneously lowering the regression testing effort. This can be achieved by implementing all highest priority requirements along with those dependent on them so that next increments implemented requirements independent of already implemented ones. The challenges involved in aspect selection, requirement prioritization, and effective selection of the security requirements of Web 2.0 application makes its incremental deliveries a complex task as compared to that of desktop applications. The proposed requirement prioritization process is hybrid approach i.e. Based on combination of negotiations and methods to prioritize both decision aspects and software requirements. This technique reduces regression testing effort by taking an impact on regression testing as one of the parameters during prioritization and overcomes various problems related to prioritization of web 2.0 applications. This technique is applied on live system of “Virtual Classroom”, by employing three stakeholder groups with total 8 stakeholders. Results were promising since it resulted in the successful delivery of web application due to effective aspect and requirement prioritization thereby leading to reduced regression testing effort.


Author(s):  
Varun Gupta ◽  
D.S. Chauhan ◽  
Kamlesh Dutta

Web 2.0 applications are complex information systems. Likewise any desktop applications, web applications are complex and require effective requirement prioritization preceded by effective decision aspect prioritization by involving diverse stakeholders. During the release of new increments, objective is to provide value to the software and simultaneously lowering the regression testing effort. This can be achieved by implementing all highest priority requirements along with those dependent on them so that next increments implemented requirements independent of already implemented ones. The challenges involved in aspect selection, requirement prioritization, and effective selection of the security requirements of Web 2.0 application makes its incremental deliveries a complex task as compared to that of desktop applications. The proposed requirement prioritization process is hybrid approach i.e. Based on combination of negotiations and methods to prioritize both decision aspects and software requirements. This technique reduces regression testing effort by taking an impact on regression testing as one of the parameters during prioritization and overcomes various problems related to prioritization of web 2.0 applications. This technique is applied on live system of “Virtual Classroom”, by employing three stakeholder groups with total 8 stakeholders. Results were promising since it resulted in the successful delivery of web application due to effective aspect and requirement prioritization thereby leading to reduced regression testing effort.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Munish Khanna ◽  
Naresh Chauhan ◽  
Dilip Kumar Sharma

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.


Author(s):  
Akihiro Hori ◽  
Shingo Takada ◽  
Toshiyuki Kurabayashi ◽  
Haruto Tanno

Much work has been done on automating regression testing for applications. But most of them focus on test execution. Little work has been done on automatically determining if a test case passes or fails. This decision is often made by comparing the results of executing test cases on a base version of the application and post-modification version of the application. If the two results match, the test case passes, otherwise fails. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no regression testing method for automatically deciding pass/fail of dynamic Web applications which use JavaScript or CSS. We propose a method that automatically decides if a dynamic Web application passes a regression test case. The basic idea is to obtain a screenshot each time the GUI of the Web application (i.e. Web page) changes its state, and then compare each corresponding screenshot to see if they match. The evaluation results showed that the accuracy rate of our approach is high and our approach can be considered as fast enough for practical use.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-116
Author(s):  
Shikha Bhatia ◽  
Mr. Harshpreet Singh

With the mounting demand of web applications, a number of issues allied to its quality have came in existence. In the meadow of web applications, it is very thorny to develop high quality web applications. A design pattern is a general repeatable solution to a generally stirring problem in software design. It should be noted that design pattern is not a finished product that can be directly transformed into source code. Rather design pattern is a depiction or template that describes how to find solution of a problem that can be used in many different situations. Past research has shown that design patterns greatly improved the execution speed of a software application. Design pattern are classified as creational design patterns, structural design pattern, behavioral design pattern, etc. MVC design pattern is very productive for architecting interactive software systems and web applications. This design pattern is partition-independent, because it is expressed in terms of an interactive application running in a single address space. We will design and analyze an algorithm by using MVC approach to improve the performance of web based application. The objective of our study will be to reduce one of the major object oriented features i.e. coupling between model and view segments of web based application. The implementation for the same will be done in by using .NET framework.


2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 84-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Lapchenko ◽  
S. P. Isakova ◽  
T. N. Bobrova ◽  
L. A. Kolpakova

It is shown that the application of the Internet technologies is relevant in the selection of crop production technologies and the formation of a rational composition of the machine-and-tractor fl eet taking into account the conditions and production resources of a particular agricultural enterprise. The work gives a short description of the web applications, namely “ExactFarming”, “Agrivi” and “AgCommand” that provide a possibility to select technologies and technical means of soil treatment, and their functions. “ExactFarming” allows to collect and store information about temperature, precipitation and weather forecast in certain areas, keep records of information about crops and make technological maps using expert templates. “Agrivi” allows to store and provide access to weather information in the fi elds with certain crops. It has algorithms to detect and make warnings about risks related to diseases and pests, as well as provides economic calculations of crop profi tability and crop planning. “AgCommand” allows to track the position of machinery and equipment in the fi elds and provides data on the weather situation in order to plan the use of agricultural machinery in the fi elds. The web applications presented hereabove do not show relation between the technologies applied and agro-climatic features of the farm location zone. They do not take into account the phytosanitary conditions in the previous years, or the relief and contour of the fi elds while drawing up technological maps or selecting the machine-and-tractor fl eet. Siberian Physical-Technical Institute of Agrarian Problems of Siberian Federal Scientifi c Center of AgroBioTechnologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences developed a software complex PIKAT for supporting machine agrotechnologies for production of spring wheat grain at an agricultural enterprise, on the basis of which there is a plan to develop a web application that will consider all the main factors limiting the yield of cultivated crops.


IEEE Access ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 135770-135783
Author(s):  
Alka Agrawal ◽  
Abhishek Kumar Pandey ◽  
Abdullah Baz ◽  
Hosam Alhakami ◽  
Wajdi Alhakami ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Hamed Z. Jahromi ◽  
Declan Delaney ◽  
Andrew Hines

Content is a key influencing factor in Web Quality of Experience (QoE) estimation. A web user’s satisfaction can be influenced by how long it takes to render and visualize the visible parts of the web page in the browser. This is referred to as the Above-the-fold (ATF) time. SpeedIndex (SI) has been widely used to estimate perceived web page loading speed of ATF content and a proxy metric for Web QoE estimation. Web application developers have been actively introducing innovative interactive features, such as animated and multimedia content, aiming to capture the users’ attention and improve the functionality and utility of the web applications. However, the literature shows that, for the websites with animated content, the estimated ATF time using the state-of-the-art metrics may not accurately match completed ATF time as perceived by users. This study introduces a new metric, Plausibly Complete Time (PCT), that estimates ATF time for a user’s perception of websites with and without animations. PCT can be integrated with SI and web QoE models. The accuracy of the proposed metric is evaluated based on two publicly available datasets. The proposed metric holds a high positive Spearman’s correlation (rs=0.89) with the Perceived ATF reported by the users for websites with and without animated content. This study demonstrates that using PCT as a KPI in QoE estimation models can improve the robustness of QoE estimation in comparison to using the state-of-the-art ATF time metric. Furthermore, experimental result showed that the estimation of SI using PCT improves the robustness of SI for websites with animated content. The PCT estimation allows web application designers to identify where poor design has significantly increased ATF time and refactor their implementation before it impacts end-user experience.


Author(s):  
Theresia Devi Indriasari ◽  
Kusworo Anindito ◽  
Eddy Julianto ◽  
Bertha Laroha Paraya Pangaribuan

<span>Indonesia is a country located on top of some tectonic plates that bring potential natural disasters. Disaster management system is considered essential in controlling the situation in the site both before and after the disaster takes place. In disaster situation, the government and society are involved in a volunteer team in order to help minimize victims and support survivors. However, the volunteering activities are often hindered since there are problems in the disaster site. One of the problems is late responses due to poor coordination among volunteers that drives the delay in disaster relief. Therefore, it is necessary to have an application that maps the positions of volunteers in a disaster site, so that the disaster management coordinator can disseminate volunteers to disaster areas based on needs. The purpose of the study is to propose an application called ‘MyMapVolunteers’ that effectively and efficiently detects the position of the volunteers in order to improve disaster management service. In this case, real time and location based service technology will able to detect the position of each volunteer. ‘MyMapVolunteers’ is composed of two platforms, which are mobile and web applications. Mobile platform is an application that uses GPS function provided by the smartphone to find the volunteers’ location coordinates and then send the data of the location automatically and manually. The web platform is used to receive volunteers’ location data and to present them in google map, therefore disaster management coordinator can monitor the positions of and search for volunteers faster.</span>


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