History-Based Test Case Prioritization for Black Box Testing Using Ant Colony Optimization

Tadahiro Noguchi; Hironori Washizaki; Yoshiaki Fukazawa; Atsutoshi Sato; Kenichiro Ota

doi:10.1109/ICST.2015.7102622

History-Based Test Case Prioritization for Black Box Testing Using Ant Colony Optimization

Tadahiro Noguchi, Hironori Washizaki, Yoshiaki Fukazawa, Atsutoshi Sato, Kenichiro Ota

School of Fundamental Science and Engineering

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Abstract

Test case prioritization is a technique to improve software testing. Although a lot of work has investigated test case prioritization, they focus on white box testing or regression testing. However, software testing is often outsourced to a software testing company, in which testers are rarely able to access to source code due to a contract. Herein a framework is proposed to prioritize test cases for black box testing on a new product using the test execution history collected from a similar prior product and the Ant Colony Optimization. A simulation using two actual products shows the effectiveness and practicality of our proposed framework.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2015 IEEE 8th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2015 - Proceedings
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479971251
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICST.2015.7102622
Publication status	Published - 2015 May 5
Event	8th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2015 - Graz, Austria Duration: 2015 Apr 13 → 2015 Apr 17

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Name	2015 IEEE 8th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2015 - Proceedings

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Other	8th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2015
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Graz
Period	15/4/13 → 15/4/17

Keywords

Ant colony optimization
Black box testing
Test case prioritization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software

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Noguchi, T., Washizaki, H., Fukazawa, Y., Sato, A., & Ota, K. (2015). History-Based Test Case Prioritization for Black Box Testing Using Ant Colony Optimization. In 2015 IEEE 8th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2015 - Proceedings Article 7102622 (2015 IEEE 8th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2015 - Proceedings). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICST.2015.7102622

History-Based Test Case Prioritization for Black Box Testing Using Ant Colony Optimization. / Noguchi, Tadahiro; Washizaki, Hironori ; Fukazawa, Yoshiaki et al.
2015 IEEE 8th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2015 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. 7102622 (2015 IEEE 8th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2015 - Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Noguchi, T, Washizaki, H , Fukazawa, Y, Sato, A & Ota, K 2015, History-Based Test Case Prioritization for Black Box Testing Using Ant Colony Optimization. in 2015 IEEE 8th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2015 - Proceedings., 7102622, 2015 IEEE 8th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2015 - Proceedings, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 8th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2015, Graz, Austria, 15/4/13. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICST.2015.7102622

Noguchi T, Washizaki H , Fukazawa Y, Sato A, Ota K. History-Based Test Case Prioritization for Black Box Testing Using Ant Colony Optimization. In 2015 IEEE 8th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2015 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2015. 7102622. (2015 IEEE 8th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2015 - Proceedings). doi: 10.1109/ICST.2015.7102622

Noguchi, Tadahiro ; Washizaki, Hironori ; Fukazawa, Yoshiaki et al. / History-Based Test Case Prioritization for Black Box Testing Using Ant Colony Optimization. 2015 IEEE 8th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2015 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. (2015 IEEE 8th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2015 - Proceedings).

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