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POPL
2012
ACM
12 years 5 months ago
Access permission contracts for scripting languages
The ideal software contract fully specifies the behavior of an operation. Often, in particular in the context of scripting languages, a full specification may be cumbersome to s...
Phillip Heidegger, Annette Bieniusa, Peter Thieman...
JSS
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
Using hybrid algorithm for Pareto efficient multi-objective test suite minimisation
Test suite minimisation techniques seek to reduce the effort required for regression testing by selecting a subset of test suites. In previous work, the problem has been considere...
Shin Yoo, Mark Harman
KBS
2011
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13 years 5 months ago
Advanced empirical testing
In today’s industrial applications, we see that knowledge systems are successfully implemented. However, critical domains require the elaborate and thoughtful validation of the ...
Joachim Baumeister
ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Configuration aware prioritization techniques in regression testing
Configurable software lets users customize applications in many ways, and is becoming increasingly prevalent. Regression testing is an important but expensive way to build confide...
Xiao Qu
ICST
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Automated Behavioral Regression Testing
—When a program is modified during software evolution, developers typically run the new version of the program against its existing test suite to validate that the changes made ...
Wei Jin, Alessandro Orso, Tao Xie
TSE
2002
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13 years 9 months ago
Test Case Prioritization: A Family of Empirical Studies
To reduce the cost of regression testing, software testers may prioritize their test cases so that those which are more important, by some measure, are run earlier in the regressi...
Sebastian G. Elbaum, Alexey G. Malishevsky, Gregg ...
WCE
2007
13 years 11 months ago
An Approach to Test Aspect-oriented Programs
— Software testing is a perennial problem, consequently it scores scant attention. An inclusion to testing challenges is aspect-oriented paradigm, which has a dichotomy of core a...
M. N. Qamar, Aziz Nadeem, R. Aziz
ECBS
2010
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
A Model-Based Regression Testing Approach for Evolving Software Systems with Flexible Tool Support
Model-based selective regression testing promises reduction in cost and labour by selecting a subset of the test suite corresponding to the modifications after system evolution. H...
Qurat-ul-ann Farooq, Muhammad Zohaib Z. Iqbal, Zaf...
ICSE
2000
IEEE-ACM
14 years 1 months ago
An empirical study of regression test application frequency
Regression testing is an expensive maintenance process used to revalidate modified software. Regression test selection (RTS) techniques attempt to reduce the cost of regression te...
Jung-Min Kim, Adam A. Porter, Gregg Rothermel
COMPSAC
2001
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Scenario-Based Functional Regression Testing
Regression testing has been a popular quality assurance technique. Most regression testing techniques are based on code or software design. This paper proposes a scenario-based fu...
Raymond A. Paul, Lian Yu, Wei-Tek Tsai, Xiaoying B...