Risk-based test coverage and prioritization

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9720812-B2
Application number	US-201715397832-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 4, 2017
Priority date	Apr 14, 2014
Publication date	Aug 1, 2017
Grant date	Aug 1, 2017

Abstract

A processor receives a rule containing a first set of code statements. The processor compares the first set of code statements of the rule to a second set of code statements of a plurality of code statements of source code. The processor responds to a match of the first set of code statements of the rule and the second set of code statements of the plurality of code statements of the source code, by applying a weight modifier to the rule, which adds a weighted value to the rule, and the processor, in response to a second matching of the first set of code statements of the rule to the second set of code statements of the plurality of code statements of the source code, applies the weight modifier to the rule, which includes a weighted value, and the weight modifier adjusts the weighted value of the rule.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer program product for indicating significance of tested code statements, the computer program product comprising:
one or more computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising:
program instructions to receive a rule containing a first set of code statements, wherein the rule includes at least one of an absolute significance indicator rule and a generic significance indicator rule;
program instructions to compare the first set of code statements of the rule to a second set of code statements of a plurality of code statements of a source code,
wherein a comparison of the first set of code statements contained in the rule to the second set of code statements of the plurality of codes statements of the source code is performed concurrent with testing of a compiled version of the source code, and
wherein determining a correspondence between the first set of code statements of the rule and the second set of code statements of the plurality of code statements of the source code is enabled by annotations applied to the source code by code instrumentation;

in response to determining a correspondence of the first set of code statements of the rule to the second set of code statements of the plurality of code statements of the source code, program instructions to apply a weight modifier to the rule, wherein the weight modifier assigns a weighted value to the first set of code statements of the rule, and wherein the weight modifier of an absolute significance indicator rule additionally adjusts the weighted value by a multiplier;
in response to determining a correspondence of the first set of code statements of the rule to a third set of code statements of the plurality of code statements of the source code, program instructions to apply the weight modifier to the rule a second time, wherein the rule includes a first instance of the weighted value and the weight modifier assigns a second instance of the weighted value to the first set of code statements of the rule;
program instructions to apply a cumulative weight value of the rule to the second set of code statements and a cumulative weight value of the rule to the third set of codes statements of the plurality of code statements of the source code, wherein the cumulative weight value indicates a significance of the second set of code statements and the third set of code statements, and is based on accumulated applications of the weighted value to the rule by the weight modifier;
program instructions to determine a priority of subsequent testing for the second set of code statements and the third set of code statements, of the plurality of code statements of the source code, based on the cumulative weight value applied to the second set of code statements and the third set of code statements; and
in response to receiving a request for a test coverage report, program instructions to display the cumulative weight value applied to the second set of code statements and the cumulative weight value applied to the third set of code statements of the plurality of code statements of the source code, in the test coverage report.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Rajamanickam Logeswaran T
• Ramakrishnan Arun
• Shetty Rohit

Classifications

• G06F11/3676 Primary

  for coverage analysis · CPC title

• G06F11/368

  for test version control, e.g. updating test cases to a new software version · CPC title

• G06F11/3684

  for test design, e.g. generating new test cases · CPC title