Test Quality Feedback Improving Effectivity and Efficiency of Unit Testing

Perscheid, Michael; Cassou, Damien; Hirschfeld, Robert

Document type :

Communication dans un congrès avec actes

DOI :

10.1109/C5.2012.7

Title :

Test Quality Feedback Improving Effectivity and Efficiency of Unit Testing

Author(s) :

Perscheid, Michael [Auteur]
Cassou, Damien [Auteur]

Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]
Hirschfeld, Robert [Auteur]

Conference title :

C5'12: Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing

City :

Playa Vista, California

Country :

Etats-Unis d'Amérique

Start date of the conference :

2012-01-18

English keyword(s) :

Test Quality Feedback
Dynamic Analysis
Unit Tests

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Langage de programmation [cs.PL]

English abstract : [en]

Writing unit tests for a software system enhances the confidence that a system works as expected. Since time pressure often prevents a complete testing of all application details developers need to know which new tests the ...
Show more >Writing unit tests for a software system enhances the confidence that a system works as expected. Since time pressure often prevents a complete testing of all application details developers need to know which new tests the system requires. Developers also need to know which existing tests take the most time and slow down the whole development process. Missing feedback about less tested functionality and reasons for long running test cases make it, however, harder to create a test suite that covers all important parts of a software system in a minimum of time. As a result a software system may be inadequately tested and developers may test less frequently. Our approach provides test quality feedback to guide developers in identifying missing tests and correcting low-quality tests. We provide developers with a tool that analyzes test suites with respect to their effectivity (e.g., missing tests) and efficiency (e.g., time and memory consumption). We implement our approach, named PathMap, as an extended test runner within the Squeak Smalltalk IDE and demonstrate its benefits by improving the test quality of representative software systems.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

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