Debugging and maintaining pragmatically reused test suites

Makady, Soha; Walker, Robert J.

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2018.05.001

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“…Functionality in the testing approach is to ensure the method in the program satisfies functional requirements and assesses the quality itself [12]. The study on test suite reusability is related to portability has been reported that in the test suite reuse effective at discovering and repairing bugs inserted during pragmatic reuse [13]. Reducing number of test cases and ability of the test cases reused to examine another object should be considered to improve the maintainability [14] [15].…”

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Proposal of a Method to Measure Test Suite Quality Attributes for White-Box Testing

Saputra¹,

Katayama²

2021

IJACSA

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As an important asset in software testing, measuring quality attributes of the test suite is important to describe the quality of software. This research proposes a method to measure the test suite quality attributes for white-box testing. The attributes are usability, efficiency, reliability, functionality, portability, and maintainability that are selected from 28 attributes in software quality. By using the proposed method, the test suite quality attributes are calculated with various results of level of quality. The result of test suite quality attribute measurement then proves the validity of its result by the reliability analysis. It is used Cohen's kappa coefficient to validating the result of test suite quality attributes measurement based on the level of agreement between the result of measurement and expert assessment. Reliability analysis on test suite quality attribute finds the attribute that strongly related based on the minimum percentage of level of agreement value are usability, reliability and functionality. Hence, our proposed method is useful to measure test suite quality attributes.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Proposal of a Method to Measure Test Suite Quality Attributes for White-Box Testing

Saputra¹,

Katayama²

2021

IJACSA

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Construct Validity in Software Engineering

Sjøberg

Bergersen

2023

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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Empirical research aims to establish generalizable claims from data. Such claims may involve concepts that must be measured indirectly by using indicators. Construct validity is concerned with whether one can justifiably make claims at the conceptual level that are supported by results at the operational level. We report a quantitative analysis of the awareness of construct validity in the software engineering literature between 2000 and 2019 and a qualitative review of 83 articles about human-centric experiments published in five high-quality journals between 2015 and 2019. Over the two decades, the appearance in the literature of the term construct validity increased sevenfold. Some of the reviewed articles we reviewed employed various ways to ensure that the indicators span the concept in an unbiased manner. We also found articles that reuse formerly validated constructs. However, the articles disagree about how to define construct validity. Several interpret construct validity excessively by including threats to internal, external, or statistical conclusion validity. A few articles also include fundamental challenges of a study, such as cheating and misunderstanding of experiment material. The diversity of topics included as threats to construct validity calls for a more minimalist approach. Based on the review, we propose seven guidelines to improve how construct validity is handled and reported in software engineering.

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