Regression testing of multi-tasking real-time systems: a problem statement

  • Authors:
  • Daniel Sundmark;Anders Pettersson;Henrik Thane

  • Affiliations:
  • MRTC, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden;MRTC, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden;MRTC, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGBED Review - Special issue: IEEE RTAS 2005 work-in-progress
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Regression testing is one of the most intricate parts of software development and maintenance. In complex multi-tasking real-time systems, task interleaving issues, deadlines and other factors further complicate this activity. In all software, however, the process of regression testing comes down to two basic activities: (1) selecting which test cases to re-execute and (2) actually performing the re-tests.The twofold contribution of this paper is the definition of the following problems: The regression test selection problem and the reproducibility problem for multi-tasking real-time system regression testing.