Test Case Reusability Metrics Model

As organizations implement systematic reuse test cases in software testing to improve productivity and quality, they must be able to measure reusability of test case and identify the most effective reuse strategies. This is done with Test Case Reusability Metrics Models(TCRMM). In this article we survey metrics of test case reusability, and provide reusability factors division that will help establish reusability assessment model. It combines four metrics factors into reusability metrics based on analytic hierarchy process. The prominent characteristic of this model is that the process of reusability metric is automated when the judgment matrix has been constructed.

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