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20th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'04)
A Case Study on Regression Test Suite Maintenance in System Evolution
Chicago, Illinois
September 11-September 14
ISBN: 0-7695-2213-0
Mats Skoglund, Stockholm University/Royal Institute of Technology
Per Runeson, Lund University
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 test-ware. 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.
Citation:
Mats Skoglund, Per Runeson, "A Case Study on Regression Test Suite Maintenance in System Evolution," icsm, pp.438-442, 20th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'04), 2004
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