A Review of Automated Testing Approach for Software Regression Testing

One of the important parts of software development life-cycle is software testing and one of which is regression testing. Regression testing is done to verify that previously detected errors have been corrected correctly and no new errors arise as a result of incorrect corrections so that the quality of the software being tested is maintained. It is important and must be done. However, the conventional method is not efficient as it is time-consuming, not reusable, and prone to error. In this paper, a comprehensive review of the automated testing approach is presented to be used by other researchers in this field of study. The review result shows that the automated testing approach is suitable to enhance the regression testing with some plausible options of tools e.g. Selenium, SAHI, and Robot-framework. Furthermore, some plausible options of execution methods are also discussed in this paper. This review further concludes that the parallel execution method is considered as a promising choice to conduct the most efficient regression testing process. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.