Análise comparativa entre técnicas de priorização geral de casos de teste no contexto do teste baseado em especificação.

Abstract

The software test activity consumes a great part of the available resources to the realization of a development process of an application. To deal with this high costs, researchers develop ways of better selecting test cases that will be executed, and one of them is the test case prioritization. In the model-based testing context, the test activities are conducted taking the behavioral models that express possible actions, responses and conditions to be satisfied of the system, even before of your implementation. The test case prioritization in early stages of the software development process is less explored in the literature and, in this work, such context is analyzed through a sistematic review and an experimental study. The conducted sistematic review revealed which techniques is available and how to evaluate their performances. Through the experiment, it was possible identify a performance order between the considered techniques and verify that there exists evidences in common suggested by other authors in other contexts.