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...age, which can also be implemented on other coverage criteria (e.g., method coverage, branch coverage). A. Adaptive Process Generally speaking, most existing test-case prioritization approaches [12], =-=[13]-=-, [14], [15] schedule the execution order of test cases based on the execution information of the previous program, which occurs before running test cases on the current program. In the application of...

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...een evaluated to be effective. As the preceding approaches ignored constraints (e.g., time and resource constraints) in real software development, many test-case prioritization approaches [10], [18], =-=[19]-=- have been proposed by considering the time limit. Recently, Bo et al. [20] proposed an adaptive random testcase prioritization, which selects test cases by calculating the distance between selected t...

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... has been evaluated to be effective. As the preceding approaches ignored constraints (e.g., time and resource constraints) in real software development, many test-case prioritization approaches [10], =-=[18]-=-, [19] have been proposed by considering the time limit. Recently, Bo et al. [20] proposed an adaptive random testcase prioritization, which selects test cases by calculating the distance between sele...

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...ectiveness of test-suite reduction. Moreover, some researchers have applied test-suite reduction to facilitate other activities in software testing and debugging (e.g., fault localization [34], [35], =-=[36]-=-). III. ADAPTIVE TEST-CASE PRIORITIZATION In this section, we first present the adaptive process of the proposed test-case prioritization approach by showing its basic difference with the existing tes...

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...are development and maintenance [2], [3]. Therefore, many researchers focus on how to automate software testing and thus improve the efficiency of software testing. Test-case prioritization [4], [5], =-=[6]-=-, [7], [8], [9], [10] is firstly proposed in regression testing [3], [11], which aims to test the changed software during software evolution by reusing the test cases of its previous version (before m...

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...ost research on test-suite reduction focuses on test-suite reduction algorithms, including greedy algorithms [26], [27], genetic algorithms [28], [29], and integer linear programming based algorithms =-=[30]-=-, [31]. Furthermore, some empirical studies [32], [33] have been conducted to investigate the impact of various factors on the effectiveness of test-suite reduction. Moreover, some researchers have ap...

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...ression testing. Besides research on coverage criteria used in test-suite reduction [14], most research on test-suite reduction focuses on test-suite reduction algorithms, including greedy algorithms =-=[26]-=-, [27], genetic algorithms [28], [29], and integer linear programming based algorithms [30], [31]. Furthermore, some empirical studies [32], [33] have been conducted to investigate the impact of vario...

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...maintenance [2], [3]. Therefore, many researchers focus on how to automate software testing and thus improve the efficiency of software testing. Test-case prioritization [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], =-=[10]-=- is firstly proposed in regression testing [3], [11], which aims to test the changed software during software evolution by reusing the test cases of its previous version (before modification). To faci...

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...l. [7], [22] proposed a static approach to prioritizing JUnit test cases based on the callees of each JUnit test case, whose effectiveness is close to dynamic approaches. Model-based approaches [23], =-=[24]-=-, [25] schedule the order of test cases based on the modification on the system model and its execution information. Korel et al. [24] proposed the first model-based test-case prioritization approach,...

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...evelopment and maintenance [2], [3]. Therefore, many researchers focus on how to automate software testing and thus improve the efficiency of software testing. Test-case prioritization [4], [5], [6], =-=[7]-=-, [8], [9], [10] is firstly proposed in regression testing [3], [11], which aims to test the changed software during software evolution by reusing the test cases of its previous version (before modifi...

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... approach, and sometimes is statistically comparable to the additional approach. As the total and additional approaches are two typical complementary test-case prioritization approaches, Zhang et al. =-=[21]-=- presented models to unify the total approach and additional approach and then generates a spectrum of test-case prioritization approaches. Our approach is similar to their approach, because both of t...

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... and maintenance [2], [3]. Therefore, many researchers focus on how to automate software testing and thus improve the efficiency of software testing. Test-case prioritization [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], =-=[9]-=-, [10] is firstly proposed in regression testing [3], [11], which aims to test the changed software during software evolution by reusing the test cases of its previous version (before modification). T...

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... in our experimental study are the seven programs of the siemens suite, space, ant, jmeter, jtopas, and xmlsec. These programs are widely used in the evaluation of software testing and analysis [36], =-=[37]-=-, [38], and are available in the software-artifact infrastructure repository (abbreviated as SIR and accessible at http://sir. unl.edu/portal/index.html). Siemens consists of seven small2 C programs, ...

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...coverage criteria used in test-suite reduction [14], most research on test-suite reduction focuses on test-suite reduction algorithms, including greedy algorithms [26], [27], genetic algorithms [28], =-=[29]-=-, and integer linear programming based algorithms [30], [31]. Furthermore, some empirical studies [32], [33] have been conducted to investigate the impact of various factors on the effectiveness of te...

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..., [22] proposed a static approach to prioritizing JUnit test cases based on the callees of each JUnit test case, whose effectiveness is close to dynamic approaches. Model-based approaches [23], [24], =-=[25]-=- schedule the order of test cases based on the modification on the system model and its execution information. Korel et al. [24] proposed the first model-based test-case prioritization approach, which...

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...search on test-suite reduction focuses on test-suite reduction algorithms, including greedy algorithms [26], [27], genetic algorithms [28], [29], and integer linear programming based algorithms [30], =-=[31]-=-. Furthermore, some empirical studies [32], [33] have been conducted to investigate the impact of various factors on the effectiveness of test-suite reduction. Moreover, some researchers have applied ...

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...pment and maintenance [2], [3]. Therefore, many researchers focus on how to automate software testing and thus improve the efficiency of software testing. Test-case prioritization [4], [5], [6], [7], =-=[8]-=-, [9], [10] is firstly proposed in regression testing [3], [11], which aims to test the changed software during software evolution by reusing the test cases of its previous version (before modificatio...

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...cus on how to automate software testing and thus improve the efficiency of software testing. Test-case prioritization [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10] is firstly proposed in regression testing [3], =-=[11]-=-, which aims to test the changed software during software evolution by reusing the test cases of its previous version (before modification). To facilitate regression testing, test-case prioritization ...

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...r, Wong et al. [17] proposed a modification-based approach, which analyzes the source code change and schedules test cases based on the “increasing cost per additional coverage” [17]. Mei et al. [7], =-=[22]-=- proposed a static approach to prioritizing JUnit test cases based on the callees of each JUnit test case, whose effectiveness is close to dynamic approaches. Model-based approaches [23], [24], [25] s...

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...s on the effectiveness of test-suite reduction. Moreover, some researchers have applied test-suite reduction to facilitate other activities in software testing and debugging (e.g., fault localization =-=[34]-=-, [35], [36]). III. ADAPTIVE TEST-CASE PRIORITIZATION In this section, we first present the adaptive process of the proposed test-case prioritization approach by showing its basic difference with the ...

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...r experimental study are the seven programs of the siemens suite, space, ant, jmeter, jtopas, and xmlsec. These programs are widely used in the evaluation of software testing and analysis [36], [37], =-=[38]-=-, and are available in the software-artifact infrastructure repository (abbreviated as SIR and accessible at http://sir. unl.edu/portal/index.html). Siemens consists of seven small2 C programs, which ...

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...imental study used the average percentage faults detected (usually abbreviated as APFD) to measure the effectiveness of test-case prioritization approaches. APFD is first proposed by Rothermel et al. =-=[15]-=- and is defined based on the following equation. ...

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...i et al. [7], [22] proposed a static approach to prioritizing JUnit test cases based on the callees of each JUnit test case, whose effectiveness is close to dynamic approaches. Model-based approaches =-=[23]-=-, [24], [25] schedule the order of test cases based on the modification on the system model and its execution information. Korel et al. [24] proposed the first model-based test-case prioritization app...

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...t in software development and maintenance [2], [3]. Therefore, many researchers focus on how to automate software testing and thus improve the efficiency of software testing. Test-case prioritization =-=[4]-=-, [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10] is firstly proposed in regression testing [3], [11], which aims to test the changed software during software evolution by reusing the test cases of its previous version...

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...nts (e.g., time and resource constraints) in real software development, many test-case prioritization approaches [10], [18], [19] have been proposed by considering the time limit. Recently, Bo et al. =-=[20]-=- proposed an adaptive random testcase prioritization, which selects test cases by calculating the distance between selected test cases and remaining unselected test cases based on their structural cov...

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...he effectiveness of test-suite reduction. Moreover, some researchers have applied test-suite reduction to facilitate other activities in software testing and debugging (e.g., fault localization [34], =-=[35]-=-, [36]). III. ADAPTIVE TEST-CASE PRIORITIZATION In this section, we first present the adaptive process of the proposed test-case prioritization approach by showing its basic difference with the existi...

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...roaches. To learn whether there are significant differences between the compared approaches, we performed the Wilcoxon signed ranked test5 on the experimental results. The Wilcoxon signed ranked test =-=[39]-=- is a nonparametric test on comparing two related or paired samples to see whether there are significant differences between the two groups. Table III summarizes results of the Wilcoxon signed ranked ...