Testing software applications with progress tracking

A method for testing a software application comprising:

• providing one or more test scenarios required to test the software application, wherein each test scenario is adapted to verify a feature of the software application;
• assigning a weight to each test scenario, comprising:
• assigning a relevance indicator to the test scenario, the relevance indicator representing a relevance of a feature being verified by the test scenario;
• assigning a complexity indicator to the test scenario, the complexity indicator representing a complexity of the feature being verified by the test scenario;
• and
• calculating the weight according to a combination of the relevance indicator and the complexity indicator;
• determining a theoretical sequence of execution of the test scenarios according to the assigned weights;
• and
• executing the test scenarios according to the theoretical sequence, comprising:
• estimating the test scenarios expected to fail;
• generating an expected sequence of execution of the test scenarios by adding a re-execution of each failing test scenario to the theoretical sequence;
• calculating an expected trend of a cumulative weight of the test scenarios in the expected sequence;
• measuring an actual trend of the cumulative weight of the executed test scenarios;
• and
• tracking a progress of the testing according to a comparison between the actual trend and the expected trend.