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Automatically repairing test cases for evolving method declarations

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Autori
Mirzaaghaei M., Pastore F., Pezzè M.
Tipo
Contributo in atti di conferenza
Anno
2010
Lingua
Inglese
Abstract
When software systems evolve, for example due to fault fixes, modification of functionalities or refactoring activities, test cases may become obsolete thus generating wrong results or even not being executable or compilable. Maintaining test cases is expensive and time consuming, and often test cases are discarded by software developers due to high maintenance costs. This paper presents TestCareAssistant, a technique that combines data-flow analysis with program diffing for automatically repairing test cases that become obsolete because of changes in method declarations (addition, removal, or type modification of parameters or return values). The paper illustrates the efficacy of TestCareAssistant by analyzing the impact of method declarations changes on the executability of test cases, and by presenting the preliminary results of applying TestCareAssistant to repair 22 test cases.
Atti di conferenza
Software Maintenance (ICSM), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Pagina inizio
1
Pagina fine
5
ISBN
978-1-4244-8630-4
Parole chiave
automatic repairing test case maintenance, Conferences, data flow analysis, data-flow analysis, IEEE Computer Society, Maintenance engineering, program testing, Prototypes, Software engineering, software maintenance, software refactoring, software systems, TestCareAssistant technique