A test case generation technique and process

It has been proven that the software testing phase is one of the most critical and important phases in the software development life cycle. In general, the software testing phase takes around 40-70% of the effort, time, and cost. This area is well researched over a long period of time. Unfortunately, while many researchers have found methods of reducing time and cost during the testing process, there are still a number of important related issues that need to be researched. This paper introduces a new high level test case generation process with a requirement prioritization method to resolve the following research problems: unable to identify suitable test cases with limited resources, lack of an ability to identify critical domain requirements in the test case generation process and ignore a number of generated test cases. Also, this paper proposes a practical test case generation technique derived from use case

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