RDCC: An effective test case prioritization framework using software requirements, design and source code collaboration

Test case prioritization is a technique for selecting those test cases, which are expected to outperform for determining faulty modules earlier. Different phases of software development lifecycle represent the total software from different point of views, where priority module may vary from phase to phase. However, information from different phases of software development lifecycle is rarely introduced and no one integrates that information to prioritize test cases. This paper presents an effective test case prioritization framework, which takes software requirements specification, design diagrams, source codes and test cases as input and provides a prioritized order of test cases using their collaborative information as output. Requirement IDs are split into words or terms excluding stop words to calculate requirements relativity. Design…