Using component metadata to regression test component-based software: Research Articles

Authors:
Alessandro Orso;Hyunsook Do;Gregg Rothermel;Mary Jean Harrold;David S. Rosenblum
Affiliations:
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska—Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, U.S.A.;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska—Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, U.S.A.;College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.;London Software Systems, Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, London, U.K.
Venue:
Software Testing, Verification & Reliability
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Increasingly, modern-day software systems are being built by combining externally-developed software components with application-specific code. For such systems, existing program-analysis-based software engineering techniques may not directly apply, due to lack of information about components. To address this problem, the use of component metadata has been proposed. Component metadata are metadata and metamethods provided with components, that retrieve or calculate information about those components. In particular, two component-metadata-based approaches for regression test selection are described: one using code-based component metadata and the other using specification-based component metadata. The results of empirical studies that illustrate the potential of these techniques to provide savings in re-testing effort are provided. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Based in part on ‘Using component metacontents to support the regression testing of component-based software’ by A. Orso, M. J. Harrold, D. Rosenblum, G. Rothermel, M. L. Soffa and H. Do, which appeared in Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance, Florence, Italy, November 2001, pp. 716–725 [1]. © 2001 IEEE. This revised and expanded version appears here with the permission of the IEEE.