TimeAware test suite prioritization

Walcott, Kristen R.; Soffa, Mary Lou; Kapfhammer, Gregory M.; Roos, Robert S.

doi:10.1145/1146238.1146240

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“…To date, many regression testing techniques have been proposed, and most of them have focused on reusing the existing test cases for regression test selection (e.g., [4], [5]) and test case prioritization (e.g., [3], [28]). Recently, researchers have started working on test suite augmentation techniques which create new test cases for areas that have been affected by changes [6], [7], [9], [8], [29].…”

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An Effective Regression Testing Approach for PHP Web Applications

Marback

Ehresmann

2012

2012 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation

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Abstract-Web applications change and are upgraded frequently due to security attacks, feature updates, or user preference changes. These fixes often involve small patches or revisions, but still, testers need to perform regression testing on their products to ensure that the changes have not introduced new faults. Applying regression testing to the entire product, however, can be very expensive, and often, companies cannot afford to do this because, typically, the turnaround time to release patches is expected to be short. One solution is focusing only on the areas of code that have been changed and performing regression testing on them. In this way, companies can provide quick patches more dependably whenever they encounter security breaches. In this paper, we propose a new regression testing approach that is applied to frequently patched web applications, considering security problems, and in particular, focusing on PHP programs. Our approach identifies the affected areas by code changes using impact analysis and generates new test cases for the impacted areas by changes using program slices considering both numeric and string input values. To facilitate our approach, we implemented a PHP Analysis and Regression Testing Engine (PARTE) and performed a controlled experiment using open source web applications. The results show that our approach is effective in reducing the cost of regression testing for frequently patched web applications.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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An Effective Regression Testing Approach for PHP Web Applications

Marback

Ehresmann

2012

2012 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation

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“…There has been some work on test case prioritization that considered limited resources [27], [28]. There are some known algorithm supporting prioritized test case generation.…”

Section: Test Evaluationmentioning

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Automating Test Case Design within the Classification Tree Editor

Zeppetzauer¹,

Kruse

2014

Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems

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Abstract-This paper describes how the proven test design technique of the classification tree method is extended within the classification tree editor in order to contribute to current test design matters. The classification tree editor not only provides the tooling to use the method but also to apply new and helpful features in the test design process. This includes the automatic generation of test cases and test sequences according to desired test depth and focus, automated boundary value analysis, various tool couplings to integrate in each individual test process and supporting features like test evaluation or test coverage analysis amongst others.

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“…While the goal of the proposed techniques is to improve the effectiveness of regression testing, to be useful in practice, techniques should be applicable within various testing environments and contexts. Recent research on test case prioritization has employed empirical studies to evaluate the cost-benefit tradeoffs among techniques considering various factors and testing contexts [14], [15], [16], [17], [18]. For instance, Do et al [14] and Walcott et al [18] have studied the effects of time constraints imposed on regression testing through empirical studies.…”

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Adaptive Regression Testing Strategy: An Empirical Study

Arafeen

2011

2011 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering

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Abstract-When software systems evolve, different amounts and types of code modifications can be involved in different versions. These factors can affect the costs and benefits of regression testing techniques in different ways, and thus, there may be no single regression testing technique that is the most cost-effective technique to use on every version. To date, many regression testing techniques have been proposed, but no research has been done on the problem of helping practitioners systematically choose appropriate techniques on new versions as systems evolve. To address this problem, we propose adaptive regression testing (ART) strategies that attempt to identify the regression testing techniques that will be the most cost-effective for each regression testing session considering organization's situations and testing environment. To assess our approach, we conducted an experiment focusing on test case prioritization techniques. Our results show that prioritization techniques selected by our approach can be more cost-effective than those used by the control approaches.

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TimeAware test suite prioritization

Cited by 243 publications

References 22 publications

An Effective Regression Testing Approach for PHP Web Applications

An Effective Regression Testing Approach for PHP Web Applications

Automating Test Case Design within the Classification Tree Editor

Adaptive Regression Testing Strategy: An Empirical Study

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