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A Method for Test Suite Reduction for Regression Testing of Interactions between Software Modules

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Perspectives of Systems Informatics (PSI 2009)

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In order to reduce the cost of regression testing, researchers have proposed the use of test-suite reduction techniques which aim to reduce the size of a test suite with respect to some criteria. Emerging trends in software development such as complexity of software being developed and increasing use of commercial off-the-shelf components present new challenges for existing test suite reduction techniques. The paper presents results of a new experimental evaluation together with a brief description of our test suite reduction method presented in earlier papers which is not affected by these challenges. The results suggest that the method has a good potential for the use for test suites reduction for software integration testing.

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  1. Dmitry Kichigin
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  1. (1941-2009), The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel New York University, NY, USA

    Amir Pnueli

  2. Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, 6, Acad. Lavrentiev pr., 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia

    Irina Virbitskaite

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, M13 9PL, Manchester, UK

    Andrei Voronkov

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Kichigin, D. (2010). A Method for Test Suite Reduction for Regression Testing of Interactions between Software Modules. In: Pnueli, A., Virbitskaite, I., Voronkov, A. (eds) Perspectives of Systems Informatics. PSI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5947. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11486-1_15

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