Prevailing Standards in Requirement-Based Test Case Prioritization: An Overview

Abstract

Testing the software is a time-consuming and costly process. Testing teams are often constrained to end their testing endeavors soon, owing to time and budget constraints. This can lead to issues with the satisfaction of the customer and the quality of the product. Test case prioritization (TCP) techniques have shown to improve the viability of regression-testing activities. Due to these, the fault detection rate is increased, which allows testers to discover faults early in the software product. In the testing phase, the necessity of requirements information has been very widely documented by the requirements engineering community. Most of the techniques for regression testing rely upon the code information of the software. Including the requirements information to the existing testing, techniques will help the testers in identifying the source of the defects more quickly and validating the product corresponding to its requirements. This paper has focused on finding the current state of the art of requirements-based test case prioritization techniques in the field of software testing.