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Identifying Data Member Level Changes for Regression Testing of Object-Oriented Programs

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Regression testing is a fundamental activity in both testing and maintenance phases. When a piece of software is modified, it is considered necessary to make sure that the quality of the software is still preserved. One important problem in regression testing is to identify those changes that can change program runtime behavior. Object-oriented paradigm experiences this problem quite often because slight change in program can result in changed runtime behavior. Changes in data member can cause changed runtime behavior but techniques proposed till now do not focus on them. In this paper, we identify changes at data member level that can potentially cause change in runtime behavior in object-oriented programs. We have proposed a technique for object-oriented programs to identify changes in data members. Our technique uses extended control flow graphs to find changes in programs written in Java language.

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  1. Center for Software Dependability, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University (MAJU), Islamabad, Pakistan

    Sadaf Manzoor & Aamer Nadeem

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  1. Computer Science Department, Central Michigan University, Pearce Hall 413, 48859, Mt. Pleasant, MI, USA

    Roger Lee

  2. Department of Information Science, Aichi Institute of Technology, Toyota, Japan

    Naohiro Ishii

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Manzoor, S., Nadeem, A. (2009). Identifying Data Member Level Changes for Regression Testing of Object-Oriented Programs. In: Lee, R., Ishii, N. (eds) Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications 2009. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 253. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05441-9_17

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