Multi Objective Test Suite Reduction for GUI Based Software Using NSGA-II

Regression Testing is a performed to ensure modified code does not have any unintended side effect on the software. If regression testing is performed with retest-all method it will be very time consuming as testing activity. Therefore test suite reduction methods are used to reduce the size of original test suite. Objective of test suite reduction is to reduce those test cases which are redundant or less important in their fault revealing capability. Test suite reduction can only be used when time is critical to run all test cases and selective testing can only be done. Various methods exist in the literature related to test suite reduction of traditional software. Most of the methods are based of single objective optimization. In case of multi objective optimization of test suite, usually researchers assign different weight values to different objectives and combine them as single objective. However in test suite reduction multiple Pareto-optimal solutions are present, it is difficult to select one test case over other. Since GUI based software is our concern there exist very few reduction techniques and none of them consider multiple objective based reduction. In this work we propose a new test suite reduction technique based on two objectives, event weight and number of faults identified by test case. We evaluated our results for 2 different applications and we achieved 20% reduction in test suite size for both applications. In Terp Paint 3.0 application compromise 15.6% fault revealing capability and for Notepad 11.1% fault revealing capability is reduced.