A methodology for controlling the size of a test suite
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
A safe, efficient regression test selection technique
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Experiments of the effectiveness of dataflow- and controlflow-based test adequacy criteria
ICSE '94 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Software engineering
Effect of test set minimization on fault detection effectiveness
Software—Practice & Experience
An efficient relevant slicing method for debugging
ESEC/FSE-7 Proceedings of the 7th European software engineering conference held jointly with the 7th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Prioritizing Test Cases For Regression Testing
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Test Case Prioritization: A Family of Empirical Studies
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Effectively prioritizing tests in development environment
ISSTA '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Software testing and analysis
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering
Incremental Regression Testing
ICSM '93 Proceedings of the Conference on Software Maintenance
An Empirical Study of the Effects of Minimization on the Fault Detection Capabilities of Test Suites
ICSM '98 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
Putting Your Best Tests Forward
IEEE Software
An Empirical Comparison of Two Safe Regression Test Selection Techniques
ISESE '03 Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering
Cost effective dynamic program slicing
Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2004 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
Experimental evaluation of using dynamic slices for fault location
Proceedings of the sixth international symposium on Automated analysis-driven debugging
Test Case Prioritization Using Relevant Slices
COMPSAC '06 Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference - Volume 01
Design and analysis of GUI test-case prioritization using weight-based methods
Journal of Systems and Software
Actor-based slicing techniques for efficient reduction of Rebeca models
Science of Computer Programming
Source code prioritization using forward slicing for exposing critical elements in a program
Journal of Computer Science and Technology
Fault-based test suite prioritization for specification-based testing
Information and Software Technology
Reliability improvement based on prioritization of source code
ICDCIT'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology
An improved method for test case prioritization by incorporating historical test case data
Science of Computer Programming
Code-based prioritization: a pre-testing effort to minimize post-release failures
Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering
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Software testing and retesting occurs continuously during the software development lifecycle to detect errors as early as possible and to gain confidence that changes to software do not introduce defects. Once developed, test suites are reused and updated frequently, and their sizes grow as software evolves. Due to time and resource constraints, an important goal during regression testing of software is to prioritize the execution of test cases in a suite so as to improve the chances of increasing the rate of fault detection. Prior techniques for test case prioritization are based on the total number of coverage requirements exercised by the test cases. In this paper, we present a new approach to prioritize test cases that takes into account the coverage requirements present in the relevant slices of the outputs of test cases. We have implemented three different heuristics based on our relevant slicing based approach to prioritize test cases and conducted experiments to compare the effectiveness of our techniques with those of the traditional techniques that only account for the total requirement coverage. Our detailed experimental study and results provide interesting insights into the effectiveness of using relevant slices for test case prioritization in terms of ability to achieve high rate of fault detection.