A Systematic Review on Regression Testing for Web-Based Applications

Abstract

Web-based applications and their underlying parts are growing rapidly to offer services over the internet around the world. Web applications play critical roles in various areas such as community development, business, academic, sciences etc. Therefore their correctness and reliability become important factors with each succeeding release. Regression testing is an important means to ensure such factors for every new released version. Regression testing is a verification process to discover the impact of changes in other interconnected modules. With the goal of selecting an appropriate regression testing approach to respond adequately to any changes in Web applications, we conduct a complete systematic study of regression testing techniques in Web applications. Out of 64, we identified a total of 22 papers reporting experiments and case studies. We present a qualitative analysis for used tools, an overview of test case section techniques and empirical study evaluation for every selected work. No approaches were found clearly superior to other since results depend on many varying factors and the deployment environments. We identified the need of evidences where approaches are evaluated cost effective rather than technical description.

Automated Software Testing Frameworks: A Review

“…Therefore, regression testing is an important software testing phase that it executed after every application change [50] [51] especially for large scale applications that are frequently updated. However, regression testing consumes large amounts of time as well as effort because it requires re-running test cases which were already executed [52]. Chittimalli et al [53] mentioned that regression testing consumes about 80% of the total software testing estimated budget.…”

On the search for industry-relevant regression testing research

“…Most of these reviews cover regression testing literature regardless of the application domain and techniques used. However, the following four surveys have a narrow scope: (Qiu et al 2014) and (Zarrad 2015) target testing web-based applications, and (Felderer and Fourneret 2015) focus on identifying security-related issues, while Catal (2012) only considers literature where researchers have used Genetic Algorithms for regression testing. The tertiary study by Garousi and Mäntylä (2016) only maps the systematic literature studies in various sub-areas of software testing including regression testing.…”

“…There is even a multitude of systematic literature reviews classifying and analysing the various proposed techniques for regression testing. For example, there are eleven literature reviews on regression testing published since 2010 (Rosero et al 2016;Felderer and Fourneret 2015;Engström et al 2010a;Zarrad 2015;Kazmi et al 2017;Harrold and Orso 2008;Catal 2012;Yoo and Harman 2012;Qiu et al 2014;Singh et al 2012;Catal and Mishra 2013).…”

Automated Regression Testing for Web Services

“…Priority based testing is used for such applications. Zarrad Anis et al [6] produced an organized and detailed review for regression testing strategies. Caturvedi Animesh et al [7] presented a Supported Approach to Testing the Active Service of Web Services.…”