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Automatically repairing test cases for evolving method declarations

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Mehdi Mirzaaghaei,

Fabrizio Pastore,

Mauro PezzeAuthors Info & Claims

ICSM '10: Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance

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https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2010.5609549

Published: 12 September 2010 Publication History

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When software systems evolve, for example due to fault fixes, modification of functionalities or refactoring activities, test cases may become obsolete thus generating wrong results or even not being executable or compilable. Maintaining test cases is expensive and time consuming, and often test cases are discarded by software developers due to high maintenance costs. This paper presents TestCareAssistant, a technique that combines data-flow analysis with program diffing for automatically repairing test cases that become obsolete because of changes in method declarations (addition, removal, or type modification of parameters or return values). The paper illustrates the efficacy of TestCareAssistant by analyzing the impact of method declarations changes on the executability of test cases, and by presenting the preliminary results of applying TestCareAssistant to repair 22 test cases.

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ICSM '10: Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance

September 2010

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ISBN:9781424486304

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