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Publikationstyp: Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift
Art der Begutachtung: Peer review (Publikation)
Titel: Testing with fewer resources : an adaptive approach to performance-aware test case generation
Autor/-in: Grano, Giovanni
Laaber, Christoph
Panichella, Annibale
Panichella, Sebastiano
et. al: No
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2019.2946773
10.21256/zhaw-18598
Erschienen in: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
Verlag / Hrsg. Institution: IEEE
ISSN: 0098-5589
1939-3520
Sprache: Englisch
Fachgebiet (DDC): 005: Computerprogrammierung, Programme und Daten
Zusammenfassung: Automated test case generation is an effective technique to yield high-coverage test suites. While the majority of research effort has been devoted to satisfying coverage criteria, a recent trend emerged towards optimizing other non-coverage aspects. In this regard, runtime and memory usage are two essential dimensions: less expensive tests reduce the resource demands for the generation process and later regression testing phases. This study shows that performance-aware test case generation requires solving two main challenges: providing a good approximation of resource usage with minimal overhead and avoiding detrimental effects on both final coverage and fault detection effectiveness. To tackle these challenges, we conceived a set of performance proxies-inspired by previous work on performance testing- that provide a reasonable estimation of the test execution costs (i.e., runtime and memory usage). Thus, we propose an adaptive strategy, called aDynaMOSA, which leverages these proxies by extending DynaMOSA, a state-of-the-art evolutionary algorithm in unit testing. Our empirical study-involving 110 non-trivial Java classes- reveals that our adaptive approach generates test suite with statistically significant improvements in runtime (-25%) and heap memory consumption (-15%) compared to DynaMOSA. Additionally, aDynaMOSA has comparable results to DynaMOSA over seven different coverage criteria and similar fault detection effectiveness. Our empirical investigation also highlights that the usage of performance proxies (i.e., without the adaptiveness) is not sufficient to generate more performant test cases without compromising the overall coverage.
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URI: https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/18598
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Departement: School of Engineering
Organisationseinheit: Institut für Informatik (InIT)
Enthalten in den Sammlungen:Publikationen School of Engineering

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Grano, G., Laaber, C., Panichella, A., & Panichella, S. (2019). Testing with fewer resources : an adaptive approach to performance-aware test case generation. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2019.2946773
Grano, G. et al. (2019) ‘Testing with fewer resources : an adaptive approach to performance-aware test case generation’, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2019.2946773.
G. Grano, C. Laaber, A. Panichella, and S. Panichella, “Testing with fewer resources : an adaptive approach to performance-aware test case generation,” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2019, doi: 10.1109/TSE.2019.2946773.
GRANO, Giovanni, Christoph LAABER, Annibale PANICHELLA und Sebastiano PANICHELLA, 2019. Testing with fewer resources : an adaptive approach to performance-aware test case generation. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 2019. DOI 10.1109/TSE.2019.2946773
Grano, Giovanni, Christoph Laaber, Annibale Panichella, and Sebastiano Panichella. 2019. “Testing with Fewer Resources : An Adaptive Approach to Performance-Aware Test Case Generation.” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2019.2946773.
Grano, Giovanni, et al. “Testing with Fewer Resources : An Adaptive Approach to Performance-Aware Test Case Generation.” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2019.2946773.


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