Supporting Controlled Experimentation with Testing Techniques: An Infrastructure and its Potential Impact
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
The infrastructure that is being designed and constructed to support controlled experimentation with testing and regression testing techniques is described and the impact that this infrastructure has had and can be expected to have.Abstract:
Where the creation, understanding, and assessment of software testing and regression testing techniques are concerned, controlled experimentation is an indispensable research methodology. Obtaining the infrastructure necessary to support such experimentation, however, is difficult and expensive. As a result, progress in experimentation with testing techniques has been slow, and empirical data on the costs and effectiveness of techniques remains relatively scarce. To help address this problem, we have been designing and constructing infrastructure to support controlled experimentation with testing and regression testing techniques. This paper reports on the challenges faced by researchers experimenting with testing techniques, including those that inform the design of our infrastructure. The paper then describes the infrastructure that we are creating in response to these challenges, and that we are now making available to other researchers, and discusses the impact that this infrastructure has had and can be expected to have.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Test Case Prioritization Using Lexicographical Ordering
Sepehr Eghbali,Ladan Tahvildari +1 more
TL;DR: Results indicate that the proposed heuristic for breaking ties in coverage based techniques can resolve ties and in turn noticeably increases the rate of fault detection.
Proceedings ArticleDOI
BugSwarm: mining and continuously growing a dataset of reproducible failures and fixes
David A. Tomassi,Naji Dmeiri,Yichen Wang,Antara Bhowmick,Yen-Chuan Liu,Premkumar Devanbu,Bogdan Vasilescu,Cindy Rubio-González +7 more
TL;DR: The BUGSWARM toolkit is described, a toolset that navigates obstacles to enable the creation of a scalable, diverse, realistic, continuously growing set of durably reproducible failing and passing versions of real-world, open-source systems.
Proceedings ArticleDOI
On the Correlation between the Effectiveness of Metamorphic Relations and Dissimilarities of Test Case Executions
TL;DR: Empirical study results reveal that there is a strong and statistically significant positive correlation between the fault-detection effectiveness and the distance and this can help to develop automated means of selecting/prioritizing MRs for cost-effective metamorphic testing.
Proceedings ArticleDOI
Experimental Comparison of Code-Based and Model-Based Test Prioritization
TL;DR: This paper briefly overviews codebased and model-based test prioritization, and presents an experimental study in which the code basedtest prioritization and the model- based test priorityization are compared.
Proceedings ArticleDOI
Time will tell: fault localization using time spectra
TL;DR: An automatic fault localization technique which leverages time spectra as abstractions for program executions to reduce the space of potential root causes for failures, which can in turn improve the turn around time for fixes.
References
More filters
Book
Case Study Research: Design and Methods
TL;DR: In this article, buku ini mencakup lebih dari 50 studi kasus, memberikan perhatian untuk analisis kuantitatif, membahas lebah lengkap penggunaan desain metode campuran penelitian, and termasuk wawasan metodologi baru.
Book Chapter
Case study research
TL;DR: The comprehensive and accessible nature of this collection will make it an essential and lasting handbook for researchers and students studying organizations.
Book
Research methods knowledge base
TL;DR: The Research Methods Knowledge Base is a comprehensive web-based textbook that addresses all of the topics in a typical introductory undergraduate or graduate course in social research methods and uses an informal, conversational style to engage both the newcomer and the more experienced student of research.
Book
Experimentation in Software Engineering: An Introduction
TL;DR: The purpose of Experimentation in Software Engineering: An Introduction is to introduce students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners to experimentation and experimental evaluation with a focus on software engineering, and to provide guidelines for performing experiments evaluating methods, techniques and tools in software engineering.
Related Papers (5)
Empirical evaluation of the tarantula automatic fault-localization technique
James A. Jones,Mary Jean Harrold +1 more