Predicting the cost-effectiveness of regression testing strategies

David S. Rosenblum, Elaine J. Weyuker
1996 Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering - SIGSOFT '96  
Selective regression testing strategies aim at choosing an appropriate subset of test cases from among a previously run test suite for a software system, based on information about the changes made to the system to create new versions. Although there has been a significant amount of research in recent years on the design of such strategies, there has been significantly less investigation of their cost-effectiveness. In this paper some computationally efficient predictors of the
more » ... s of the two main classes of selective regression testing approaches are presented. A case study is described in which these predictors are used to assess the appropriateness of using a particular regression testing strategy to test multiple versions of a widely-used software system.
doi:10.1145/239098.239118 dblp:conf/sigsoft/RosenblumW96 fatcat:klfa2yejmjd3bhu3ijlhot7u6e