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@article{Soetens2016ESEM,
  author =        {Quinten David Soetens and Serge Demeyer and
                   Andy Zaidman and Javier P{\'e}rez},
  journal =       {Empirical Software Engineering},
  month =         oct,
  note =          {SCI impact factor 1.393, ranked 27 / 106 in Computer
                   Science, Software Engineering --- 2015},
  number =        {1},
  pages =         {1 -- 43},
  publisher =     {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
  title =         {Change-based test selection: an empirical evaluation},
  volume =        {21},
  year =          {2016},
  abstract =      {Regression test selection (i.e., selecting a subset
                   of a given regression test suite) is a problem that
                   has been studied intensely over the last decade.
                   However, with the increasing popularity of developer
                   tests as the driver of the test process, more
                   fine-grained solutions that work well within the
                   context of the Integrated Development Environment
                   (IDE) are in order. Consequently, we created two
                   variants of a test selection heuristic which exploit
                   fine-grained changes recorded during actual
                   development inside the IDE. One variant only
                   considers static binding of method invocations while
                   the other variant takes dynamic binding into account.
                   This paper investigates the tradeoffs between these
                   two variants in terms of the reduction (i.e., How
                   many tests could we omit from the test suite, and how
                   much did we gain in runtime execution?) as well as
                   the fault detection ability of the reduced test suite
                   (i.e., Were tests omitted erroneously?). We used our
                   approach on three distinct cases, two open source
                   cases ---Cruisecontrol and PMD--- and one industrial
                   case --- Historia. Our results show that only
                   considering static binding reduces the test suite
                   significantly but occasionally omits a relevant test;
                   considering dynamic binding rarely misses a test yet
                   often boils down to running the complete test suite.
                   Nevertheless, our analysis provides indications on
                   when a given variant is more appropriate.",},
  annote =        {internationaljournal},
  doi =           {10.1007/s10664-015-9405-5},
  issn =          {1573-7616},
}

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