GUI Test Case Prioritization using Social Network Analysis

Abstract

Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) has become popular in today software products due to its user-friendly merit. However, GUI tests are costly and suffer explosive test cases. Moreover, software evolution causes the GUIs inevitably changed resulting in harder testing. Regression test has been widely used for GUIs software testing. It is considered to be the most expensive phase in the software testing process, though. Among several techniques, test case prioritization would help identify the reduced test cases in the regression testing suite, still maintain the same criteria as the original number of test cases in order to solve the limitation of time and cost in this phase. In this paper, we propose using network centrality from social network analysis to prioritize the test cases and compare each parameter to find a suitable parameter for GUI test case prioritization.