Test cycle optimization using contextual association mapping

A system comprising:

• one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
• obtaining an artefact that includes a collection of reference test cases, where each reference test case includes a sequence of words;
• generating candidate tags from each of the reference test cases based on the sequences of words in the reference test cases;
• determining, for each of the candidate tags, a number of the reference test cases of the collection in which the candidate tag appears;
• determining, for each candidate tag, whether to select the candidate tag as a context tag used to classify the reference test cases based on the number of the reference test cases in which the candidate tag appears;
• obtaining a sample test case that includes a sequence of words;
• identifying a subset of the context tags in the sequence of words in the sample test case;
• classifying a subset of the reference test cases as contextually similar to the sample test case based the context tags that were identified;
• and
• executing the subset of the reference test cases classified as contextually similar to the sample test case based the context tags that were identified.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing software comprising instructions executable by one or more computers which, upon such execution, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

• obtaining an artefact that includes a collection of reference test cases, where each reference test case includes a sequence of words;
• generating candidate tags from each of the reference test cases based on the sequences of words in the reference test cases;
• determining, for each of the candidate tags, a number of the reference test cases of the collection in which the candidate tag appears;
• determining, for each candidate tag, whether to select the candidate tag as a context tag used to classify the reference test cases based on the number of the reference test cases in which the candidate tag appears;
• obtaining a sample test case that includes a sequence of words;
• identifying a subset of the context tags in the sequence of words in the sample test case;
• classifying a subset of the reference test cases as contextually similar to the sample test case based the context tags that were identified;
• and
• executing the subset of the reference test cases classified as contextually similar to the sample test case based the context tags that were identified.