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Regression testing

Regression testing . Tor Stållhane. What is regression testing – 1 . Regression testing is testing done to check that a system update does not re-introduce errors that have been corrected earlier. All – or almost all – regression tests aim at checking Functionality – black box tests.

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Regression testing

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  1. Regression testing Tor Stållhane

  2. What is regression testing – 1 Regression testing is testing done to check that a system update does not re-introduce errors that have been corrected earlier. All – or almost all – regression tests aim at checking • Functionality – black box tests. • Architecture – grey box tests

  3. What is regression testing – 2 Since they are supposed to test all functionality and all previously done changes, regression tests are usually large. Thus, regression testing needs automatic • Execution – no human intervention • Checking. Leaving the checking to developers will not work.

  4. Automating regression tests – 1 We face the same challenge when doing automating regression test as we face when doing automatic test checking in general: Which parts of the output should be checked against the oracle? This question gets more important as we need to have more version of the same test due to system variability.

  5. Automating regression tests – 2 Simple but annoying – and some times expensive – problems are e.g. • Use of date in the test output • Changes in number of blanks or line shifts • Other format changes • Changes in lead texts

  6. Automating regression tests – 3 A simple solution seems to be to use assertions. This is not a good alternative for the following reasons: The assertion will have to be • Inside the system all the time – extra space and execution time • Only in the test version – one extra version per variation to maintain.

  7. Automating regression tests – 4 The answer to the question on the previous slide is to parameterize the test results. Instead of using a complete output file as the oracle we use: • A tool to extract the relevant info from the output file • Compare the extracted info with the info stored in the oracle

  8. Build results for version x Test data Build tests for version x Run tests for version x Verdict Compare Automating regression tests – 5

  9. Run all regression tests Since a regression test is large, it is always a need to identify which parts of the regression tests need to be run after a change – e.g. an error correction. Thus, traceability – which components are used to realize which functionality or requirement – is important info for two reasons: • Save execution time. Fast and cheap hardware is, however, steadily reducing this need. • Know which tests to change when we change functionality.

  10. Improving the regression test Once we have a regression test, it is important to update it each time we • Fix a bug • Add, change or remove functionality • Change platform If we create variants of the system, we also need to create parallel variants of the regression test suite.

  11. Bug fixing – 1 When somebody reports a bug, the first activity is to reproduce it – preferably with the simplest input sequence possible. When the bug is reproduced, we need to make a new entry in the regression test. This entry will be one of the following • The original reported input sequence • The simplest possible input sequence

  12. Bug fixing – 2 • The original reported input sequence • Pro: is the real thing and will tell us something about how the system is used in real life. • Con: can be large, complex and difficult to understand • The simplest possible input sequence • Pro: is (usually) simple to understand • Con: is an artificial input sequence and has no info beside being able to reproduce a reported bug

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