Improving Component Based Software Integration Testing Using Data Mining Technique

To increase rapid and high-quality product delivery, companies divide applications into different components and reuse these components to reduce complexity in product development. This increases agility and flexibility in continuous integration within limited resources. Consequently, interaction among reusable components results in mismatch of components specification and retrieval due to encapsulated functionalities. Therefore, most of the components-based software fail during integration testing. In this paper, we propose a framework for component based software specification and integration testing. The proposed framework considers multiple contexts for component specification and uses a data mining technique for improving the integration testing process. We evaluated the proposed framework using empirical study. The results show significant improvement for various parameters in the proposed framework as compared to traditional approaches of component based software development.