Novel Approach for Test Methods Automatic Selection in Product Reliability: Improved Method for Acquiring Part-Whole Relation

In the product development process, test planning can be a time-consuming task, in particular, the test methods for product reliability are usually selected manually because many documents must be referred to when selecting suitable test methods. To make this process more efficient, we have been researched methods to support test planning. In this paper a new automatic selection method for test plans is proposed. The proposed method makes use of information pertaining to cases of failure. We describe a method for searching for failure cases among products having similar attributes for a product currently under consideration. The main principle of this method consists in automated acquisition of names describing the product´s constituent components for use in the search process. Experimental results show that the proposed method delivers a greater degree of acquisition performance, precision, and recall in acquiring names of components compared with a previously proposed method.