Reverse engineering of test cases for selective regression testing

Author

Sneed, Harry M.

Author_Institution

Software Data Service, Vienna Univ. of Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany

fYear

2004

fDate

24-26 March 2004

Firstpage

69

Lastpage

74

Abstract

A problem arises in the maintenance of large systems when the links between the specification based test cases and the code components they test are lost. It is no longer possible to perform selective regression testing because it is not known which test cases to run when a particular component is corrected or altered. To regain that knowledge, it is necessary to restore the links between test cases and code. We describe two complementary approaches to achieving that goal of reverse engineering - one by static analysis and the other by dynamic analysis. The objective in both cases is to determine which test cases exercise which methods in which components in order to enable selective regression testing.

Keywords

dynamic testing; program testing; reverse engineering; software maintenance; dynamic test analysis; reverse engineering; selective regression testing; software maintenance; static code analysis; Computer aided software engineering; Costs; Data analysis; Joining processes; Performance evaluation; Reverse engineering; Software maintenance; Software testing; System testing; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 2004. CSMR 2004. Proceedings. Eighth European Conference on

ISSN

1534-5351

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2107-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSMR.2004.1281407

Filename

1281407