False test case selection: Improvement of regression testing approach

Abstract

Regression testing has been considered as a time-consumed process in software testing. In a recent year, one of interesting research work initiated for minimizing testing time is finding a technique in selecting test cases from a large test suit. Most of test cases selection technique in literature considers test cases that are related to the requirement's changed. During executing test cases that are related to the modified part, a set of fail test case is accidentally emerged and make test suit has become larger. Therefore, this paper proposes a technique in selecting suitable false test cases when they are generated in regression testing. However, in order to ensure that the quality and validity of using the proposed technique are acceptable, an experiment was systematically conducted in this study. And we also found that the false test case selection technique can minimize the size of test suit, effectively.