Comprehensive Testing Tool for Automatic Test Suite Generation, Prioritization and Testing of Object Oriented Software Products

Testing has been an essential part of software development life cycle. Automatic test case and test data generation has attracted many researchers in the recent past. Test suite generation is the concept given importance which considers multiple objectives in mind and ensures core coverage. The test cases thus generated can have dependencies such as open dependencies and closed dependencies. When there are dependencies, it is obvious that the order of execution of test cases can have impact on the percentage of flaws detected in the software under test. Therefore test case prioritization is another important research area that complements automatic test suite generation in objects oriented systems. Prior researches on test case prioritization focused on dependency structures. However, in this paper, we automate the extraction of dependency structures. We proposed a methodology that takes care of automatic test suite generation and test case prioritization for effective testing of object oriented software. We built a tool to demonstrate the proof of concept. The empirical study with 20 case studies revealed that the proposed tool and underlying methods can have significant impact on the software industry and associated clientele.