Directed Test Suite Augmentation

Authors

Zhihong Xu, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

2011

Citation

2011 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) Digital Object Identifier: 10.1145/1985793.1986008

Comments

Copyright 2011 IEEE

Abstract

Test suite augmentation techniques are used in regression testing to identify code elements affected by changes and to generate test cases to cover those elements. Whereas methods and techniques to find affected elements have been extensively researched in regression testing, how to generate new test cases to cover these elements cost-effectively has rarely been studied. It is known that generating test cases is very expensive, so we want to focus on this second step. We believe that reusing existing test cases will help us achieve this task. This research intends to provide a framework for test suite augmentation techniques that will reuse existing test cases to automatically generate new test cases to cover as many affected elements as possible cost-effectively.