TY  - JOUR
T1  - Regression Test Cases Prioritization for Object-Oriented Programs
Using Genetic Algorithm with Reduced Value of Fault Severity
AU - Musa, Samaila AU - Sultan, Abu Bakar Md AU - Abd-Ghani, Abdul Azim Bin AU - Baharom, Salmi 
JO  - International Journal of Soft Computing
VL  - 11
IS  - 4
SP  - 247
EP  - 254
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-9503
DO  - ijscomp.2016.247.254
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ijscomp.2016.247.254
KW  - Regression testing
KW  -genetic algorithm
KW  -test case prioritization
KW  -APFD
KW  -severity
AB  - One of the most important activities in software maintenance is Regression testing. The re-execution
of all test cases during the regression testing is costly. Several of the researchers address the issue of test case
prioritization using genetic algorithm, but most of the researcher do not select modification-revealing before
prioritization and used the same fault severity. This stusy presents regression test case prioritization of selected
test cases for object-oriented software using genetic algorithm with reduced fault severities when a fault is
executed by the preceding test cases. The experimental evaluation of our proposed approach was done using
nine programs. The researcher measure the performances of their prioritization approaches using Average
Percentage of rate of Faults Detection (APFD) metric. It was observed from the results that the approach
increases the effectiveness of regression testing in term of rate of fault detection. It was concluded that
prioritization of modification-revealing test cases based reduced fault severity to compute fitness value to a
smaller value provides considerably better results.
ER  -