A lightweight framework for testing database applications

  • Authors:
  • Joe Tang;Eric Lo

  • Affiliations:
  • Hong Kong Polytechnic University;Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Testing is one of the most expensive tasks in today's software development cycle and it is very important to devise techniques that speed up the whole testing process. In a recent paper [9], it has been shown that tests on database applications can be speeded up by using proper test execution strategies and test optimization algorithms. This papers proposes a new test execution strategy called SAFE-OPTIMISTIC and a new test optimization algorithm called SLICE*. SAFE-OPTIMISTIC is better than the strategy proposed in [9] in which it reduces testing time without jeopardizing test quality. SLICE* has a better performance than the test optimization algorithms in [9] in all cases and it keeps on performing well even if the subject application and the test suite evolve.