METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED TEST CASE SELECTION

摘要

A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computer system for intellectually and automatically selecting test cases for testing software that has been changed. In this invention, the automated selection of the subset of the test cases is based on determination of what software under test has been changed, what test cases have exercised these changes, what test data has been used to exercise these changes, what test environment including hardware and software configuration has been used to test these changes, and what pre-requisite test cases have been run prior to having the software under test in the correct state.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for selecting test cases for testing software that has been changed, the method comprising:
executing one or more test cases with one or more test case input data, one or more test environments, and one or more prerequisite test cases; generating code coverage metrics for the software, code coverage metrics describing what code of the software has been executed; mapping the code coverage metrics to a combination of the one or more test cases, the one or more test case input data, the one or more test environments, and the one or more prerequisite test cases; generating code change metrics for the software, code change metrics describing what changes to the software have been made; updating a database which maps the changes to the one or more test cases, the one or more test case input data, the one or more test environments, and the one or more prerequisite test cases; determining the changes to the software, based on a correlation between the code coverage metrics and the code change metrics; and selecting, from the one or more test cases, test cases for testing the software that has been changed.