The automatic generation of load test suites and the assessment of the resulting software

Avritzer, Alberto; Weyuker, E.R.

doi:10.1109/32.464549

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“…-Both the empty referrer and external referrer categories also provide information about the entry points to the models. -The overall referral pairs ranked by usage frequency can be used to test commonly used referral pairs, much like the testing of frequently used call pairs in [1].…”

Section: Discussion and Other Uses Of Referral Pair Analysismentioning

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Analyzing Errors and Referral Pairs to Characterize Common Problems and Improve Web Reliability

Tian

2003

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract.In this paper, we analyze web server error logs and the corresponding referral pairs from web access logs to identify and characterize common web errors. We identify missing files as the primary type of web errors and classify them according to their incoming referral links into internal, external, and user errors. We also identify major missing file types within each error category. Based on these analysis results, we recommend different quality assurance initiatives to deal with different types of web problems for the effective improvement to web reliability.

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Section: Discussion and Other Uses Of Referral Pair Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Analyzing Errors and Referral Pairs to Characterize Common Problems and Improve Web Reliability

Tian

2003

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Both approaches do not address concurrent programs. Avritzer and Weyuker describe algorithms to create tests for concurrent telecommunication systems [4]. Their approach is limited to systems that can be modeled as Markov chains.…”

Section: Test Generationmentioning

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Performance regression testing of concurrent classes

Pradel

Huggler

Groß

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis

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Developers of thread-safe classes struggle with two opposing goals. The class must be correct, which requires synchronizing concurrent accesses, and the class should provide reasonable performance, which is difficult to realize in the presence of unnecessary synchronization. Validating the performance of a thread-safe class is challenging because it requires diverse workloads that use the class, because existing performance analysis techniques focus on individual bottleneck methods, and because reliably measuring the performance of concurrent executions is difficult. This paper presents SpeedGun, an automatic performance regression testing technique for thread-safe classes. The key idea is to generate multi-threaded performance tests and to compare two versions of a class with each other. The analysis notifies developers when changing a thread-safe class significantly influences the performance of clients of this class. An evaluation with 113 pairs of classes from popular Java projects shows that the analysis effectively identifies 13 performance differences, including performance regressions that the respective developers were not aware of.

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“…Alternatively, ATCG techniques could be classified according to the software artifact that they operate on. For example, there has been work with generating tests from specifications [12,33,37], from formal models [1,27,51], and from code [2,5,25,26].…”

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Integrating automated test generation into the WYSIWYT spreadsheet testing methodology

Fisher

Rothermel

Brown

et al. 2006

ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.

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Spreadsheet languages, which include commercial spreadsheets and various research systems, have had a substantial impact on end-user computing. Research shows, however, that spreadsheets often contain faults. Thus, in previous work, we presented a methodology that helps spreadsheet users test their spreadsheet formulas. Our empirical studies have shown that end users can use this methodology to test spreadsheets more adequately and efficiently; however, the process of generating test cases can still represent a significant impediment. To address this problem, we have been investigating how to incorporate automated test case generation into our testing methodology in ways that support incremental testing and provide immediate visual feedback. We have utilized two techniques for generating test cases, one involving random selection and one involving a goal-oriented approach. We describe these techniques and their integration into our testing environment, and report results of an experiment examining their effectiveness and efficiency.

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The automatic generation of load test suites and the assessment of the resulting software

Cited by 139 publications

References 8 publications

Analyzing Errors and Referral Pairs to Characterize Common Problems and Improve Web Reliability

Analyzing Errors and Referral Pairs to Characterize Common Problems and Improve Web Reliability

Performance regression testing of concurrent classes

Integrating automated test generation into the WYSIWYT spreadsheet testing methodology

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