Research Article
A Novel Approach to Test Data Selection in Regression Testing of Software
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
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| Volume 1 - Issue 14 |
| Published: February 2010 |
| Authors: Soubhagya Sankar Barpanda, Baikuntha Narayan Biswal, Durga Prasad Mohapatra |
10.5120/300-465
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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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author = { Soubhagya Sankar Barpanda,Baikuntha Narayan Biswal,Durga Prasad Mohapatra },
title = { A Novel Approach to Test Data Selection in Regression Testing of Software },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
year = { 2010 },
volume = { 1 },
number = { 14 },
pages = { 57-62 },
doi = { 10.5120/300-465 },
publisher = { Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA }
}
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%A Baikuntha Narayan Biswal
%A Durga Prasad Mohapatra
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%J International Journal of Computer Applications
%V 1
%N 14
%P 57-62
%R 10.5120/300-465
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
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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