A Case Study on Regression Test Suite Maintenance in System Evolution
Skoglund, Mats and Runeson, Per LU
(2004)
p.438-442
- Abstract
- When a system is maintained, its automated test
suites must also be maintained to keep the tests up to
date. Even though practice indicates that test suite maintenance can be very costly we have seen few studies considering the actual efforts for maintenance of testware.
We conducted a case study on an evolving system
with three updated versions, changed with three different change strategies. Test suites for automated unit and functional tests were used for regression testing the extended applications. With one change strategy more changes were made in the tests code than in the system that was tested, and with another strategy no changes were needed for the unit tests to work.
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- Skoglund, Mats
and Runeson, Per
LU
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- publishing date
- 2004
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- The 20th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
- pages
- 438 - 442
- publisher
- IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- external identifiers
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- scopus:18044364216
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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abstract = {{When a system is maintained, its automated test <br/><br>
suites must also be maintained to keep the tests up to <br/><br>
date. Even though practice indicates that test suite maintenance can be very costly we have seen few studies considering the actual efforts for maintenance of testware. <br/><br>
We conducted a case study on an evolving system <br/><br>
with three updated versions, changed with three different change strategies. Test suites for automated unit and functional tests were used for regression testing the extended applications. With one change strategy more changes were made in the tests code than in the system that was tested, and with another strategy no changes were needed for the unit tests to work.}},
author = {{Skoglund, Mats and Runeson, Per}},
booktitle = {{The 20th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{438--442}},
publisher = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
title = {{A Case Study on Regression Test Suite Maintenance in System Evolution}},
year = {{2004}},
}