Paper Info
Title
A Case Study on Regression Test Suite Maintenance in System Evolution
Abstract
When a system is maintained, its automated test suites must also be maintained to keep the tests up to date. Even though practice indicates that test suite-maintenance can be very costly we have seen few studies considering the actual efforts for maintenance of test-ware. We conducted a case study on an evolving system with three updated versions, changed with three different change strategies. Test suites for automated unit and functional tests were used for regression testing the extended applications. With one change strategy more changes were made in the tests code than in the system that was tested, and with another strategy no changes were needed for the unit tests to work.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1109/ICSM.2004.1357831
ICSM
Keywords
Field
DocType
unit test,test suite-maintenance,actual effort,change strategy,case study,functional test,different change strategy,automated unit,system evolution,tests code,regression test suite maintenance,test suite,automated test suite,functional testing,regression testing,unit testing,software engineering,software maintenance
Test suite,Smoke testing (software),Test Management Approach,Systems engineering,Suite,Computer science,Regression testing,White-box testing,Acceptance testing,Test strategy,Reliability engineering
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1063-6773
0-7695-2213-0
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.80
6
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mats Skoglund124210.16
Per Runeson22869144.10