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A Method for the Selection of Software Testing Techniques Using Analytic Hierarchy Process

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For the development of high quality systems, software testing has been used as a way to help software engineers. Selection of a software testing technique is an important research issue in software engineering community. Verification and validation activities are conducted to enhance the software quality throughout the entire life cycle of software development. The success rate of software system depends upon the type of software testing techniques that we employ at the time of software testing process. In literature, we have identified different types of software testing techniques like, black box techniques, white box techniques, and gray box techniques etc.; and choosing one of them is not an easy task according to need/criteria of the software projects because each technique pursues a specific objective or goal; and is less suitable for specific kind of software system. Therefore, in order to address this issue, we present a method for the selection of software testing techniques using analytic hierarchy process (AHP) by considering the following criteria: New or modified system (NMS), Number of independent paths (NIP), Number of test cases (NTC), and Cost of requirements (CoR). Finally, the utilization of the proposed approach is demonstrated with the help of an example.

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  1. Software Engineering Laboratory, Lab. no. 305, Computer Engineering Section, University Polytechnic, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi, 110025, India

    Mohd Sadiq

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Al-Falah School of Engineering and Technology, Dhauj, Faridabad, Haryana, India

    Sahida Sultana

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  1. University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia and University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Sambalpur, Odisha, India

    Himansu Sekhar Behera

  3. Computer Science & Engineering, Kalyani University, Nadia, West Bengal, India

    Jyotsna Kumar Mandal

  4. Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Rourkela, India

    Durga Prasad Mohapatra

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Sadiq, M., Sultana, S. (2015). A Method for the Selection of Software Testing Techniques Using Analytic Hierarchy Process. In: Jain, L., Behera, H., Mandal, J., Mohapatra, D. (eds) Computational Intelligence in Data Mining - Volume 1. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 31. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2205-7_20

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