Application of Mahalanobis-Taguchi Method and 0-1 Programming Method to Cost-Effective Regression Testing

Year	Authors	Publisher	DOI
2016	Aman, Hirohisa Tanaka, Yuta Nakano, Takashi Ogasawara, Hideto Kawahara, Minoru	IEEE	10.1109/SEAA.2016.29

Year

Authors

Publisher

DOI

2016

Aman, Hirohisa Tanaka, Yuta Nakano, Takashi Ogasawara, Hideto Kawahara, Minoru

IEEE

10.1109/SEAA.2016.29

Techniques	Applicability
TCP	Industry Evaluation Industry Author

Techniques

Applicability

TCP

Industry Evaluation Industry Author

Experiment subject(s)	Industrial Partner	Programming Language
Undisclosed system from Toshiba (300 TCs) Industrial proprietary, small scale	Toshiba (Japan)	Unclear

Experiment subject(s)

Industrial Partner

Programming Language

Undisclosed system from Toshiba (300 TCs) Industrial proprietary, small scale

Toshiba (Japan)

Unclear

Effectiveness Metrics	Efficiency Metrics	Other Metrics
Fault Detection Rate (FDR)

Effectiveness Metrics

Efficiency Metrics

Other Metrics

Fault Detection Rate (FDR)

Information Approach	Algorithm Approach	Open Challenges
History-based	Similarity / distance-based	Apply in other software domains and compare with other TCP techniques.

Information Approach

Algorithm Approach

Open Challenges

History-based

Similarity / distance-based

Apply in other software domains and compare with other TCP techniques.

Abstract

To enhance the cost effectiveness of regression testing, this paper proposes a method for prioritizing test cases. In general, a test case can be evaluated from various different points of view, therefore whether it is worth it to re-run should be discussed using multi criteria. This paper shows that the Mahalanobis-Taguchi (MT) method is a useful way to successfully integrate different evaluations of a test case. Moreover, this paper proposes to use the 0-1 programming method together with the MT method in order to take into account not only the priority of a test case but also its cost to run. The empirical study with 300 test cases for an industrial software system shows that the combination of the MT method and the 0-1 programming method is more cost-effective than other conventional methods. © 2016 IEEE.