Patent ID: 9740590
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computer program product for determining an importance value of a test case in a collaborative software development environment, the computer program product comprising: one or more computer readable storage devices and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage devices, the program instructions comprising: program instructions to determine a snapshot of a collaborative software development environment, wherein the snapshot includes a test case and at least one relationship between the test case and one or more nodes in one or more hierarchical levels, wherein a test case is a set of conditions under which a tester can determine whether an application is functioning as designed; program instructions to determine based, at least in part, on the snapshot, a plurality of parameters for the test case in the collaborative software development environment; and program instructions to calculate based, at least in part, on the plurality of parameters, an importance value of the test case, wherein the importance value is used to determine an importance of the test case relative to one or more other test cases and wherein calculating the importance value of the test case includes program instructions to calculate an importance value at each of the one or more nodes of the one or more hierarchical levels, and wherein the program instructions to calculate the importance value at each of the one or more nodes of the one or more hierarchical levels includes consideration of a normalization factor accounting for a degree of variance and a multiplication factor accounting for a distance of the one or more nodes from the test case.