Mahtab: Phase-wise acceleration of regression testing for C
Tue 27 Oct 2020 03:30 - 04:00 at Infante - RT8 - Misc 2
Software regression testing consists of offline, online, and execution phases which are executed sequentially. The offline phase involves code instrumentation and test-coverage collection. Subsequently, the online phase performs program differencing, test-suite selection and prioritization. Finally, the selected test-cases are executed against the new version of software for its re-validation. Regression testing is a time-consuming process and is often on the critical path of the project. To improve the turn-around time of software development cycle, our goal is to reduce regression testing time across all phases using multi-core parallelization. This poses several challenges that stem from I/O, dependence on third-party libraries, and inherently sequential components in the overall testing process. We propose parallelization test-windows to effectively partition test-cases across threads. To measure the benefit of prioritization coupled with multi-threaded execution, we propose a new metric, EPSilon, for rewarding failure observation frequency in the timeline of test-execution. To measure the rate of code-change coverage due to regression test prioritization, we introduce ECC, a variant of the widely used APFD metric. We illustrate the effectiveness of our approach using the popular Software-artifact Infrastructure Repository (SIR) and five real-world projects from GitHub.
Mon 26 OctDisplayed time zone: Lisbon change
15:30 - 17:00 | RT8 - Misc 2Journal-First Papers / Research Papers at Infante +11h Chair(s): Alin Stefanescu University of Bucharest | ||
15:30 30mTalk | Implementation-induced Inconsistency and Nondeterminism in Deterministic Clustering Algorithms Research Papers Xin Yin New Jersey Institute of Technology, Iulian Neamtiu New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, Saketan Patil New Jersey Institute of Technology, Sean Andrews New Jersey Institute of Technology Link to publication DOI | ||
16:00 30mTalk | CBR: Controlled Burst Recording Research Papers Oscar Cornejo University of Milano Bicocca, Italy, Daniela Briola University of Milano Bicocca, Daniela Micucci University of Milano Bicocca, Leonardo Mariani University of Milano Bicocca Link to publication DOI | ||
16:30 30mTalk | Mahtab: Phase-wise acceleration of regression testing for C Journal-First Papers Link to publication DOI Media Attached |
Tue 27 OctDisplayed time zone: Lisbon change
02:30 - 04:00 | |||
02:30 30mTalk | Implementation-induced Inconsistency and Nondeterminism in Deterministic Clustering Algorithms Research Papers Xin Yin New Jersey Institute of Technology, Iulian Neamtiu New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, Saketan Patil New Jersey Institute of Technology, Sean Andrews New Jersey Institute of Technology Link to publication DOI | ||
03:00 30mTalk | CBR: Controlled Burst Recording Research Papers Oscar Cornejo University of Milano Bicocca, Italy, Daniela Briola University of Milano Bicocca, Daniela Micucci University of Milano Bicocca, Leonardo Mariani University of Milano Bicocca Link to publication DOI | ||
03:30 30mTalk | Mahtab: Phase-wise acceleration of regression testing for C Journal-First Papers Link to publication DOI Media Attached |