Title :

Evaluating the Efficiency of Continuous Testing during Test-Driven Development

Author(s) :

Demeyer, Serge [Auteur]
Universiteit Antwerpen = University of Antwerpen [Antwerpen]
Verhaeghe, Benoît [Auteur]
Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]
Etien, Anne [Auteur]
Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]
Anquetil, Nicolas [Auteur]
Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]
Ducasse, Stephane [Auteur]
Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]

Conference title :

VST 2018 - 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests

City :

Campobasso

Country :

Italie

Start date of the conference :

2018-03-20

English keyword(s) :

continuous testing
test-driven development
test selection

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

English abstract : [en]

Continuous testing is a novel feature within modern programming environments, where unit tests constantly run in the background providing early feedback about breaking changes. One of the more challenging aspects of such ...
Show more >Continuous testing is a novel feature within modern programming environments, where unit tests constantly run in the background providing early feedback about breaking changes. One of the more challenging aspects of such a continuous testing tool is choosing the heuristic which selects the tests to run based on the changes recently applied. To help tool builders select the most appropriate test selection heuristic, we assess their efficiency in a continuous testing context. We observe on two small but representative cases that a continuous testing tool generates significant reductions in number of tests that need to be executed. Nevertheless, these heuristics sometimes result in false negatives, thus in rare occasions discard pertinent tests.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille (CRIStAL) - UMR 9189

Source :

Harvested from HAL