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A Novel Approach to Test Data Selection in Regression Testing of Software

by Soubhagya Sankar Barpanda, Baikuntha Narayan Biswal, Durga Prasad Mohapatra
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 1 - Number 14
Year of Publication: 2010
Authors: Soubhagya Sankar Barpanda, Baikuntha Narayan Biswal, Durga Prasad Mohapatra
10.5120/300-465

Soubhagya Sankar Barpanda, Baikuntha Narayan Biswal, Durga Prasad Mohapatra . A Novel Approach to Test Data Selection in Regression Testing of Software. International Journal of Computer Applications. 1, 14 ( February 2010), 57-62. DOI=10.5120/300-465

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Abstract

Regression testing is a signi¯cant, but one of the most unex- plored area in software engineering. Regression testing also forms a major part of the software maintenance process . In this paper, we propose a new technique to select a sub- set of the existing pool of test data to rerun, so that the a®ected parts of the program can be tested. Our approach, takes the help of program dependence graph and incorpo- rates graph coloring technique, and forward program slicing. The advantage of our algorithm is that it rightly identi¯es the a®ected parts of the modi¯ed program. Also there is a very wide scope for the process to be optimized further.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Program slicing Program dependence graph Software main-tenance Regression testing Graph coloring algorithm