Test case prioritization is a technique to improve software testing. Although many works have investigated test case prioritization, they focus on white box testing or regression testing. However, software testing is often outsourced to a software testing company that employs black box testing. Herein a framework is proposed to prioritize test cases for black box testing on a new product using ...

It has been widely recognized that the relative priority of requirements can help developers to resolve inconsistencies and make some necessary trade-off decisions. However, for most distributed development such as Viewpoints-based approaches, different stakeholders may assign different levels of priority to the same shared requirements statement from their own perspectives. The disagreement in...

The prioritization of interaction test suites has received more attention in the field of combinatorial interaction testing, especially when testing resources are limited to allow the part of combinatorial test cases to be executed. Many strategies have been proposed to prioritize interaction test suites according to different evaluation measures. However, most of these strategies may face a ch...

Band selection for remotely sensed image data is an effective means to mitigate the curse of dimensionality. Many criteria have been suggested in the past for optimal band selection. In this paper, a joint band-prioritization and band-decorrelation approach to band selection is considered for hyperspectral image classification. The proposed band prioritization is a method based on the eigen (sp...

Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) has been a popular model organism in animal genetics due to the high accessibility of reverse-genetics tools. In addition, the close relationship between the Drosophila and human genomes rationalizes the use of Drosophila as an invertebrate model for human neurobiology and disease research. A platform technology for predicting candidate genes or functions wou...

While performing regression testing, an appropriate choice for test case ordering allows the tester to early discover faults in source code. To this end, test case prioritization techniques can be used. Several existing test case prioritization techniques leave out the execution cost of test cases and exploit a single objective function (e.g., code or requirements coverage). In this paper, we p...

BACKGROUND The growing economization of the health care system and implication of market principles in the medical field have risen new and serious questions on the meaning of the medical profession, the doctor-patient relationship and the orientation of medicine itself. The impact of the dynamic clinical structures on the doctor-doctor and the doctor-patient interaction appear even unpredictab...

In this chapter a new prioritization technique has been proposed with two new prioritization factors for regression testing and with computed weights to the proposed six factors. This proposed technique prioritizes the test cases based on their weights. The procedure for computing the weights of the test cases is three fold. Firstly, to calculate the weights of the proposed factors, the factors...

Many web services not only communicate through XML-based messages, but also may dynamically modify their behaviors by applying different interpretations on XML messages through updating the associated XML Schemas or XML-based interface specifications. Such artifacts are usually complex, allowing XML-based messages conforming to these specifications structurally complex. Testing should cost-effe...

The attentional prioritization hypothesis of object-based attention (Shomstein & Yantis in Perception & Psychophysics, 64, 41-51, 2002) suggests a two-stage selection process comprising an automatic spatial gradient and flexible strategic (prioritization) selection. The combined attentional priorities of these two stages of object-based selection determine the order in which participants will s...