NDLI: Prioritizing JUnit test cases in absence of coverage information

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Lingming Zhang Ji Zhou Dan Hao Lu Zhang Hong Mei
Copyright Year	2009
Description	Author affiliation: Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies, Ministry of Education, Institute of Software, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R. China (Lingming Zhang; Ji Zhou; Dan Hao; Lu Zhang; Hong Mei)
Abstract	Better orderings of test cases can detect faults in less time with fewer resources, and thus make the debugging process earlier and accelerate software delivery. As a result, test case prioritization has become a hot topic in the research of regression testing. With the popularity of using the JUnit testing framework for developing Java software, researchers also paid attention to techniques for prioritizing JUnit test cases in regression testing of Java software. Typically, most of them are based on coverage information of test cases. However, coverage information may need extra costs to acquire. In this paper, we propose an approach (named Jupta) for prioritizing JUnit test cases in absence of coverage information. Jupta statically analyzes call graphs of JUnit test cases and the software under test to estimate the test ability (TA) of each test case. Furthermore, Jupta provides two prioritization techniques: the total TA based technique (denoted as JuptaT) and the additional TA based technique (denoted as JuptaA). To evaluate Jupta, we performed an experimental study on two open source Java programs, containing 11 versions in total. The experimental results indicate that Jupta is more effective and stable than the untreated orderings and Jupta is approximately as effective and stable as prioritization techniques using coverage information at the method level.
Starting Page	19
Ending Page	28
File Size	714998
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424448975
ISSN	10636773
DOI	10.1109/ICSM.2009.5306350
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-09-20
Publisher Place	Canada
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Software testing Electronic equipment testing Java Software debugging Fault detection Costs Laboratories Educational technology Computer science education Computer science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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