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@inproceedings{VanRompaeyWCRE2008,
author = {Bart Van Rompaey and Serge Demeyer},
booktitle = {Proceedings {WCRE}'08 (Working Conference on Reverse
Engineering)},
note = {Acceptance ratio: (20+12) / 70 = 29\%},
publisher = {{IEEE} Press},
title = {Estimation of Test Code Changes using Historical
Release Data},
year = {2008},
abstract = {In order to remain effective, test suites have to
co-evolve alongside the production system. As such,
quantifying the amount of changes in test code should
be a part of effort estimation models for maintenance
activities. In this paper, we verify to which extent
(i) production code size, (ii) coverage measurements;
and (iii) testability metrics predict the size of
test code changes between two releases. For three
Java and one C++ system, the size of production code
changes appears to be the best predictor. We
subsequently use this predictor to construct,
calibrate and validate an estimation model using the
historical release data. We demonstrate that is
feasible to obtain a reliable prediction model,
provided that at least 5 to 10 releases are},
annote = {internationalconference},
doi = {10.1109/WCRE.2008.29},
}