Applying High-Quality Test Case Management Mechanisms to Improve Regression Testing Speed and Quality

Regression testing takes an important task in DevOps, agile software development, and software maintenance workflow. To ensure requirements quality and speed up product delivery and deployment, regression testing must overcome four challenges: identifying affected test cases correctly, reducing duplicate test cases, finding defects as early as possible, and testing with automated tools. Test case management is an important tool to assist regression testing to overcome the challenges. Applying high-quality test case management mechanisms (TCMM) is a critical way to speed regression testing tasks and assure quality. In this paper, the quality factors and characteristics of TCMM are discussed and analyzed. Quantifying the quality characteristics can identify and improve the defects and insufficiencies of TCMM. Based on quantifying characteristics, the TCMM measurement model is proposed to identify the defects and insufficiencies of TCMM, and then effectively improve the quality of TCMM. Using high-quality TCMM for regression testing makes DevOps, agile software development, and software maintenance workflow to speed up product deployment and delivery, and the required quality.