Design and implementation of an automatic tool for software regression test based on STAF

The advent and advancements of software testing automation helped the whole software testing process to be carried out efficiently and effectively. Regression test is a testing process which seeks to uncover new software bugs, or regressions, in existing functional and non-functional areas of a system after changes. Automation brings significant enhancements to regression test. STAF (The Software Testing Automation Framework) is an open source, multi-platform, multi-language automated testing framework. In this paper, we design and implement a software regression test automation tool (RTAT) based on STAF. The high-level design, components design as well as its J2EE based implementation will be covered; additionally we applied it to the testing process of a real world regression test process and conducted evaluation based on the application. The evaluation results indicate that our tool helped to improve the regression test efficiency significantly.