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Software Engineering Final Year Topic: Investigation of Regression Test Selection Accuracy

This Software Engineering final year project investigates selecting tests after code changes without missing known regressions, focusing on software lifecycle evidence, reproducible verification and the limits of the chosen engineering method.

Why choose this project topic?

The topic gives selecting tests after code changes without missing known regressions a measurable software-engineering purpose beyond building another application. Comparing regressions detected, tests avoided and execution time supports a defensible account of maintainability, testing or delivery trade-offs, with concrete examples of both useful findings and cases the method misses.

How do the selected software-engineering methods affect regressions detected, tests avoided and execution time when selecting tests after code changes without missing known regressions?

Choose an owned or permissively licensed teaching codebase, agree the controlled changes and validation plan, and narrow the evidence for selecting tests after code changes without missing known regressions.

Proposed project objectives

  1. 01Define the software artifact, expected behaviour and evidence needed for selecting tests after code changes without missing known regressions.
  2. 02Use a permissively licensed teaching repository, compare dependency-based selection with full-suite runs and seed documented behavioural faults.
  3. 03Compare regressions detected, tests avoided and execution time and document limitations and reproducibility.

A suggested research approach

Use a permissively licensed teaching repository, compare dependency-based selection with full-suite runs and seed documented behavioural faults. Confirm repository licences and use owned or disposable environments for mutations. Record versions, fixtures and reference outcomes, compare regressions detected, tests avoided and execution time with a documented baseline, and distinguish a passing bounded check from evidence about all possible software behaviour.

What you will need

  • Permissively licensed repository
  • Known fault variants
  • Test selection prototype

Keep your project scope clear

A passing selected suite does not prove the absence of untested regressions.

Software Engineering project chapter outline

Use this outline as a starting point. You can edit the chapter titles to match your department’s format during setup.

  1. Chapter 1Introduction
  2. Chapter 2Literature Review
  3. Chapter 3System Analysis and Design
  4. Chapter 4System Implementation and Testing
  5. Chapter 5Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations

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