Efficient Path Selection Strategy Based on Static Analysis for Regression Testing

Abstract

the changes made to the software system for enhancement. The most common approach to this problem is simply execute the existing test cases in the test suite; i.e. retest all approach, a systematically selected subset is chosen to be reuse, then substantial resources will be saved, due to the limited size of the selected test data (5), (6). There are distinctions between classes of techniques of regression testing: Test suites minimization techniques can be used to reduce test suite by eliminating redundant test suites. In safe approaches, every test case is selected that exercised any program element which could be affected by a program modification. In coverage approaches, test cases are selected which met some structural criteria. In this approach, select a single test case satisfying each coverage requirement introduced by the criterion, minimization techniques work like coverage approaches (7).