NDLI: Partition-based regression verification

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Author	Bohme, M. Oliveira, B.C.D.S. Roychoudhury, A.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Sch. of Comput., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore (Bohme, M.; Oliveira, B.C.D.S.; Roychoudhury, A.)
Abstract	Regression verification (RV) seeks to guarantee the absence of regression errors in a changed program version. This paper presents Partition-based Regression Verification (PRV): an approach to RV based on the gradual exploration of differential input partitions. A differential input partition is a subset of the common input space of two program versions that serves as a unit of verification. Instead of proving the absence of regression for the complete input space at once, PRV verifies differential partitions in a gradual manner. If the exploration is interrupted, PRV retains partial verification guarantees at least for the explored differential partitions. This is crucial in practice as verifying the complete input space can be prohibitively expensive. Experiments show that PRV provides a useful alternative to state-of-the-art regression test generation techniques. During the exploration, PRV generates test cases which can expose different behaviour across two program versions. However, while test cases are generally single points in the common input space, PRV can verify entire partitions and moreover give feedback that allows programmers to relate a behavioral difference to those syntactic changes that contribute to this difference.
Starting Page	302
Ending Page	311
File Size	494338
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467330732
e-ISBN	9781467330763
DOI	10.1109/ICSE.2013.6606576
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-05-18
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Nickel Concrete Educational institutions Syntactics Partitioning algorithms Semantics Testing Testing and Analysis Software Verification
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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