Application testability of fault detection using dependency structure algorithm

  Shah Ubaid Nisar,  T.S.Shiney Angel

The purpose of this paper is to provide prioritization techniques which are effective for improving rate of fault detection. In this paper dependency structure algorithms are used to make application testability more efficient and reliable. The priority is based on a graph coverage value. Test case prioritization techniques organize the test cases in a test suite by ordering such that the most beneficial are executed first thus allowing for an increase in the effectiveness of testing. One of the performance goals i.e. the fault detection rate, is a measure of how quickly faults are detected during the testing process. Previous work on test cases demonstrates system based evaluation but however these approaches do not consider application based testability. The nature of the techniques preserves the dependencies in the test ordering. Experimental evaluation on two applications indicates that our techniques offer a solution to the prioritization problem in the presence of test cases with dependencies. Two applications are tested over different code and shows good results than the existing one. The results demonstrate a cost-effective technique. The results of both experiments provide clear evidence that the dependency structure algorithms have potential to be used to prioritize test suites. Based on our experimental results and analysis, we can also comment upon our expectations for how well prioritization may perform on programs that are much larger. Also, large programs in which the output values are very sensitive to each individual computation are likely to show greater improvement with our approach as well.

Keywords- Test suite, testing and debugging, fault analysis

Unique Identification Number - IJEDRCP1403019
Page Number(s) - 89-94
Pubished in - Volume 2 | Issue NCETSE Conference | March 2014
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Shah Ubaid Nisar,  T.S.Shiney Angel,   "Application testability of fault detection using dependency structure algorithm", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.2, Issue NCETSE Conference, pp.89-94, March 2014, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDRCP1403019.pdf