An Evaluation of Change-Based Coverage Criteria

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dc.contributor.authorFisher II, Marcen
dc.contributor.authorWloka, Janen
dc.contributor.authorTip, Franken
dc.contributor.authorRyder, Barbara G.en
dc.contributor.authorLuchansky, Alexanderen
dc.contributor.departmentComputer Scienceen
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-19T14:36:36Zen
dc.date.available2013-06-19T14:36:36Zen
dc.date.issued2011-03-01en
dc.description.abstractVarious coverage criteria are commonly used to assess the quality of test suites, but achieving full coverage according to these criteria is often impossible or impractical. Our research starts from the popular assumption that a disproportionate number of faults is likely to reside in recently changed code. Based on this assumption, we propose several change-based coverage criteria that reflect to what extent changes with respect to a previous program version are exercised by a test suite. In a set of experiments on programs from the SIR repository, we found change-based criteria to reveal faults better than traditional criteria, and to enable the construction of much smaller test suites with similar fault detection effectiveness. We also report on a case study that shows that achieving (near) 100% coverage according to a change-based criterion is both feasible and useful.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifierhttp://eprints.cs.vt.edu/archive/00001143/en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://eprints.cs.vt.edu/archive/00001143/01/icse2011-submission.pdfen
dc.identifier.trnumberTR-11-03en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/19450en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherDepartment of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State Universityen
dc.relation.ispartofComputer Science Technical Reportsen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectSoftware engineeringen
dc.titleAn Evaluation of Change-Based Coverage Criteriaen
dc.typeTechnical reporten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
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