Title :
Directed test suite augmentation
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
Abstract :
Test suite augmentation techniques are used in regression testing to identify code elements affected by changes and to generate test cases to cover those elements. Whereas methods and techniques to find affected elements have been extensively researched in regression testing, how to generate new test cases to cover these elements cost-effectively has rarely been studied. It is known that generating test cases is very expensive, so we want to focus on this second step. We believe that reusing existing test cases will help us achieve this task. This research intends to provide a framework for test suite augmentation techniques that will reuse existing test cases to automatically generate new test cases to cover as many affected elements as possible cost-effectively.
Keywords :
program testing; regression analysis; code element identification; directed test suite augmentation technique; regression testing; Genetic algorithms; Heuristic algorithms; Minimization; Software algorithms; Software systems; Testing; empirical studies; regression testing; test suite augmentation;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering (ICSE), 2011 33rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4503-0445-0
Electronic_ISBN :
0270-5257
DOI :
10.1145/1985793.1986008