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ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Sufficient mutation operators for measuring test effectiveness
Mutants are automatically-generated, possibly faulty variants of programs. The mutation adequacy ratio of a test suite is the ratio of non-equivalent mutants it is able to identif...
Akbar Siami Namin, James H. Andrews, Duncan J. Mur...
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Why do developers neglect exception handling?
In this paper, we explore the problems associated with exception handling from a new dimension: the human. We designed a study that evaluates (1) different perspectives of softwar...
Carsten Görg, Hina Shah, Mary Jean Harrold
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Experimenting with exception propagation mechanisms in service-oriented architecture
Exception handling is one of the popular means used for improving dependability and supporting recovery in the ServiceOriented Architecture (SOA). This practical experience paper ...
Anatoliy Gorbenko, Alexander Romanovsky, Vyachesla...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Differential testing: a new approach to change detection
Regression testing, as it's commonly practiced, is unsound due to inconsistent test repair and test addition. This paper presents a new technique, differential testing, that ...
Robert B. Evans, Alberto Savoia
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
The impact of input domain reduction on search-based test data generation
There has recently been a great deal of interest in search? based test data generation, with many local and global search algorithms being proposed. However, to date, there has be...
Mark Harman, Youssef Hassoun, Kiran Lakhotia, Phil...