Regression testing in an industrial environment
Communications of the ACM
Incorporating varying test costs and fault severities into test case prioritization
ICSE '01 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on 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
The impact of test suite granularity on the cost-effectiveness of regression testing
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Automation of software test
Information and Software Technology
Experiments with test case prioritization using relevant slices
Journal of Systems and Software
An improved method for test case prioritization by incorporating historical test case data
Science of Computer Programming
System regression test planning with a fuzzy expert system
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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Test case prioritization orders tests so that they help you meet your testing goals earlier during regression testing. Prioritization techniques can, for example, order tests to achieve coverage at the fastest rate possible, exercise features in order of expected frequency of use, or reveal faults as early as possible. We focus on the last goal, which we describe as "increasing a test suite's rate of fault detection" or the speed with which the test suite reveals faults. A faster fault detection rate during regression testing provides earlier feedback on a system under test, supporting earlier strategic decisions about release schedules and letting engineers begin debugging sooner. Also, if testing time is limited or unexpectedly reduced, prioritization increases the chance that testing resources will have been spent as cost effectively as possible in the available time.