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Continuous Selective Testing

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Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming (XP 2010)

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A manual and explicit activity, the frequent selection and execution of tests requires considerable discipline. Our approach automatically derives a subset of tests based on actual modifications to the code base at hand, then continuously executes them transparently in the background, and so supports developers in instantly assessing the effect of their coding activities with respect to the overall set of unit tests to be passed. We apply techniques of selective regression testing, mainly relying on dynamic analysis. By taking advantage of the internal program representation available in IDEs, we do not need to rely on expensive comparisons of different program versions to detect modified code entities.

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    Bastian Steinert, Michael Haupt, Robert Krahn & Robert Hirschfeld

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  1. Center for Applied Software Engineering, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Piazza Domenicani 3, 39100, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

    Alberto Sillitti

  2. University of Waikato, 3216, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Angela Martin

  3. Lero - the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Xiaofeng Wang

  4. Nokia gate5 GmbH, 10115, Berlin, Germany

    Elizabeth Whitworth

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Steinert, B., Haupt, M., Krahn, R., Hirschfeld, R. (2010). Continuous Selective Testing. In: Sillitti, A., Martin, A., Wang, X., Whitworth, E. (eds) Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. XP 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 48. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13054-0_10

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