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Priority-wise Test Case Allocation using Fuzzy Logic

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Optimal allocation of test cases to respective operations/functions is often desired and considered as a necessary task in software testing in order to provide efficient testing before its operational use. This objective is achieved in later phase of software development life cycle. Since our major concern is to improve software reliability, therefore to achieve high reliability of program under test, it would be required to consider certain functional requirement that users are going to face during its operational use and an educated guess will be made on the number of test cases that are going to be allocated to the functions. We have used three input parameters: occurrence probability, criticality and data interactivity of functions and combined this using fuzzy inference system to derive weight. Depending upon the priority of each function, they will receive test cases. The application in which the software runs and the relationship between the functions do not take into account conventional approaches to assign test cases. That is intuitively inaccurate. In this paper, the distribution of test cases with regard to software application, its use and the relationship using the fuzzy inference system model is suggested to solve this issue. The results show that taking advantage of important factors to extract the priority of feature using fuzzy inference system generally enables operational testing to outperform the achievement of a given reliability goal under the same testing budget.

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  1. Banasthali Vidyapith, Vanasthali, Rajasthan, India

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  2. UPES, Dehradun, India

    Prateek Gupta

  3. Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India

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Amrita, Gupta, P. & Singh, P. Priority-wise Test Case Allocation using Fuzzy Logic. Int J Syst Assur Eng Manag (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13198-021-01247-z

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