Title
Improving the effectiveness of test suite through mining historical data
Abstract
Software regression testing is an integral part of most major software projects. As projects grow larger and the number of tests increases, performing regression testing becomes more costly. If software engineers can identify and run tests that are more likely to detect failures during regression testing, they may be able to better manage their regression testing activities. In this paper, to help identify such test cases, we developed techniques that utilizes various types of information in software repositories. To assess our techniques, we conducted an empirical study using an industrial software product, Microsoft Dynamics AX, which contains real faults. Our results show that the proposed techniques can be effective in identifying test cases that are likely to detect failures.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2597073.2597084
MSR
Keywords
Field
DocType
test failure prediction,experimentation,mining software repositories,regression testing,verification,measurement,empirical study,testing and debugging
Test suite,Data mining,Risk-based testing,Computer science,Manual testing,Non-regression testing,White-box testing,Regression testing,Software reliability testing,Software regression,Reliability engineering
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
18
0.61
12
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jeff Anderson1234.05
Saeed Salem218217.39
Hyunsook Do3129056.38