User Session based Test Cases Prioritization for Web Applications Testing

Abstract

Nowadays, web application is crucial for most daily activities that rely on the web services. To improve the quality of reliable web services, web application testing has been used in finding faults under test. User session based testing is one approach to create test cases with real user data that are collected from daily user logs. The main considerable problem is how to reduce the cost of web application testing in time without service interruption. However, real user data is reduced as the test cases, all the reduced test cases cannot be executed completely under time constraints in practice. In this paper, the test cases prioritization criterion is proposed to schedule the test cases in order to improve the rate of fault detection. This criterion is based on two factors, frequency of sequences and dependent count of web pages. Most current techniques use a random method to prioritize test cases when they have the same priority. The proposed prioritization method considers this fact that there are multiple test cases with the same priority.