Feasibility of using Source Code Changes on the Selection of Text-based Regression Test Cases

  • Joelson Araújo UFPE
  • Jaedson Araújo UFPE
  • Cláudio Magalhães UFPE
  • João Andrade UFPE
  • Alexandre Mota UFPE

Resumo


This paper investigates the relationship between recently modified source code and the selection of text-based regression test cases. The main reason is that our industrial partner uses release notes documents to perform such a selection, but these documents are not so well-written as the text-based test cases. Therefore, we intend to extract useful text from source code to see whether they can serve as a source of keywords in the selection process. We present an experiment that shows promising results about this hypothesis.
Palavras-chave: Test case selection, Source code, Regression campaign, Information retrieval
Publicado
18/09/2017
ARAÚJO, Joelson; ARAÚJO, Jaedson; MAGALHÃES, Cláudio; ANDRADE, João; MOTA, Alexandre. Feasibility of using Source Code Changes on the Selection of Text-based Regression Test Cases. In: SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRO DE TESTES DE SOFTWARE SISTEMÁTICO E AUTOMATIZADO (SAST), 2. , 2017, Fortaleza/CE. Anais [...]. Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2017 . p. 69-74.