Techniques for automatically generating testcases

摘要

A technique for generating testcases includes receiving a new product specification for an application. A noun-verb pairing is performed on the new product specification. An attempt is made to locate a similar noun-verb pairing in a previous product specification for the application that corresponds to the new noun-verb pairing. In response to locating the similar noun-verb pairing in the previous product specification, a new testcase is generated by modifying an existing testcase that is associated with the similar noun-verb pairing in the previous product specification. In response to not locating the similar noun-verb pairing in the previous product specification, the fact that the new testcase was not generated is indicated.

主权项

1. A computer program product for generating testcases, the computer program product comprising:
a computer-readable storage medium; computer-readable program code embodied on the computer-readable storage medium, wherein the computer-readable program code, when executed by a data processing system, cause the data processing system to: receive a new product specification for an application; perform a new noun-verb pairing on the new product specification; attempt to locate a similar noun-verb pairing, corresponding to the new noun-verb pairing, in a previous product specification for the application; in response to locating the similar noun-verb pairing in the previous product specification, generate a new testcase by modifying a previous testcase that is associated with the similar noun-verb pairing in the previous product specification; in response to not locating the similar noun-verb pairing in the previous product specification, indicate that the new testcase was not generated; load the previous product specification and the previous testcase into the data processing system; perform natural language processing on the previous product specification to identify the similar noun-verb pairing in the previous product specification; match the similar noun-verb pairing with the previous testcase; and train a classifier using the similar noun-verb pairing and the previous testcase.