Test Case Prioritization using Cuckoo Search

Background Work

An early representation of test prioritization was reported by Horgan and London (Horgan J R and S London, 1992) in an industrial strength tool, this tool is used for variety of control flow and data flow based coverage criteria. Coverage based (Aggrawal K K et al,2004) technique for test case prioritization, where prioritization is based on the original test suite and modified version, however they do not combine code coverage information with function coverage. (Elbaum Sebastian et al, 2000 and 2004) have reported several variants of test prioritization. (Kim J. and A. Porter, 2002) propose a history based technique and discuss trade offs in the use of test selection using modification traversing tests and test prioritization. (Srivastava A. and J. Thiagarajan, 2002) have reported Echelon, which is an industrial strength tool used to prioritize test cases. (Srikanth H and Williams L, 2005) investigate economic application of test prioritization. (Do Hyunsook et al, 2004) performed a cost benefit analysis of prioritizing unit test cases. (Wong W. E et al, 1997) reported an experiment to investigate the fault detection effectiveness using all use criteria.