Designing a Test Case Catalog based on Document Review for Optimizing Test Case Development Process

Software development projects are prone to failure. This failure is due to the challenges faced. Finding and fixing bugs is time-consuming and costly, so it must be done effectively and efficiently. In this research, we designed a Test Case Catalog that reused existing test cases. Based on the XYZ smart campus system project, we have collected test cases referring to existing Software Requirement Documents (SRDs), as the basis to the testing process. To form the test case catalog, the test cases were generated from common test cases among twenty eight of thirty seven targeted applications in the XYZ project. The design of test case catalog consisted of five steps: reviewing requirement document, counting words, populating common functions, generating test cases, and forming test case catalog. The experimental results of using the Test Case Catalog in application testing by one Leading University’s IT Support unit showed that using the Test Case Catalog helped testing by increasing the number of test cases executed and the test variation value. Therefore, it shows that our proposed test case catalog can optimize test case development process. It is expected that by using the Test Case Catalog, testers can better reuse and manage test cases in the catalog, so that she can generate test case faster and better.