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Authors: Zhenyu Zhang 1 ; Zijian Tong 2 and Xiaopeng Gao 3

Affiliations: 1 Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ; 2 R&D, Sohu.com Inc., China ; 3 School of Computer Science and Technology, Beihang University, China

Keyword(s): Regression Testing, Test Case Prioritization, Continuous Integration, Pipeline Scheduling.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: Software Engineering ; Software Engineering Methods and Techniques ; Software Testing and Maintenance

Abstract: 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, har dware 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. (More)

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Paper citation in several formats:
Zhang, Z.; Tong, Z. and Gao, X. (2010). TESTING IN PARALLEL - A Need for Practical Regression Testing. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT; ISBN 978-989-8425-23-2; ISSN 2184-2833, SciTePress, pages 344-348. DOI: 10.5220/0003041503440348

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TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT
TI - TESTING IN PARALLEL - A Need for Practical Regression Testing
SN - 978-989-8425-23-2
IS - 2184-2833
AU - Zhang, Z.
AU - Tong, Z.
AU - Gao, X.
PY - 2010
SP - 344
EP - 348
DO - 10.5220/0003041503440348
PB - SciTePress