NDLI: Regression testing for component-based software systems by enhancing change information

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Chengying Mao Yansheng Lu
Copyright Year	2005
Description	Author affiliation: Coll. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., China (Chengying Mao; Yansheng Lu)
Abstract	In recent years, component-based software has been widely used in various application domains and becomes a fairly popular software form. However, due to the lack of information about the externally-developed components, system testers (i.e., component users) generally can't perform effective testing (especially regression testing) on their component-based systems. Component users don't know the details about change in component, so they aren't able to select the proper test cases to retest the modified system. In this paper, we present an improved regression testing method based on the enhanced change information of component version to test the software system containing some modified components. It is a collaborative testing method, needing the joint participations of component developer and user. Component developers calculate the change information from labeled method call graph and provide it to component users via XML files. Component users use this change information and their instrumentation records together to pick out test cases for next-round testing. In addition, we have employed preliminary experiments on some medium scale systems, the experiment results show that our regression testing method is fairly feasible and cost-effective in practice.
File Size	245961
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769524656
ISSN	15301362
DOI	10.1109/APSEC.2005.95
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2005-12-15
Publisher Place	Taiwan
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Software testing System testing Software systems Application software Performance evaluation Educational institutions Computer science Collaboration XML Instruments test case selection component component-based software system regression testing labeled method call graph change information
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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