testing in parallel: a need for practical regression testing

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	testing in parallel: a need for practical regression testing
	Zhang Zhenyu; Tong Zijian; Gao Xiaopeng
	2010
会议名称	5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, ICSOFT 2010
会议录名称	ICSOFT 2010 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies
页码	344-348
会议日期	37459
会议地点	Athens, Greece
收录类别	ei
出版地	Portugal
ISBN	9789900000000
部门归属	(1) State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; (2) R and D, Sohu.com Inc., Beijing, China; (3) School of Computer Science and Technology, Beihang University, Beijing, China
摘要	When software evolves, its functionalities are evaluated using regression testing. In a regression testing process, a test suite is augmented, reduced, prioritized, and run on a software build version. Regression testing has been used in industry for decades; while in some modern software activities, we find that regression testing is yet not practical to apply. For example, according to our realistic experiences in Sohu.com Inc., running a reduced test suite, even concurrently, may cost two hours or longer. Nevertheless, in an urgent task or a continuous integration environment, the version builds and regression testing requests may come more often. In such a case, it is not strange that a new round of test suite run needs to start before all the previous ones have terminated. As a solution, running test suites on different build versions in parallel may increase the efficiency of regression testing and facilitate evaluating the fitness of software evolutions. On the other hand, hardware and software resources limit the number of paralleled tasks. In this paper, we raise the problem of testing in parallel, give the general problem settings, and use a pipeline presentation for data visualization. Solving this problem is expected to make practical regression testing.
关键词	Data Visualization Pipelines Problem Solving Regression Analysis Scheduling Testing Visualization
主办者	Inst. Syst. Technol. Inf., Control Commun. (INSTICC); University of Piraeus; University of Piraeus - Research Center
语种	英语
内容类型	会议论文
URI标识	http://ir.iscas.ac.cn/handle/311060/8932
专题	2010软件所会议论文
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang Zhenyu,Tong Zijian,Gao Xiaopeng. testing in parallel: a need for practical regression testing[C]. Portugal,2010:344-348.