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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Using Dependency Knowledge at Integration Testing
Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, Inbyggda system.ORCID-id: 0000-0002-8724-9049
Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, Inbyggda system.ORCID-id: 0000-0003-1597-6738
Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, Inbyggda system.ORCID-id: 0000-0002-1512-0844
SICS, Sweden.ORCID-id: 0000-0002-0921-0878
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2016 (Engelska)Ingår i: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2016, Vol. 10027, s. 268-284Konferensbidrag, Publicerat paper (Refereegranskat)
Abstract [en]

In software system development, testing can take considerable time and resources, and there are numerous examples in the literature of how to improve the testing process. In particular, methods for selection and prioritization of test cases can play a critical role in efficient use of testing resources. This paper focuses on the problem of selection and ordering of integration-level test cases. Integration testing is performed to evaluate the correctness of several units in composition. Further, for reasons of both effectiveness and safety, many embedded systems are still tested manually. To this end, we propose a process, supported by an online decision support system, for ordering and selection of test cases based on the test result of previously executed test cases. To analyze the economic efficiency of such a system, a customized return on investment (ROI) metric tailored for system integration testing is introduced. Using data collected from the development process of a large-scale safety-critical embedded system, we perform Monte Carlo simulations to evaluate the expected ROI of three variants of the proposed new process. The results show that our proposed decision support system is beneficial in terms of ROI at system integration testing and thus qualifies as an important element in improving the integration testing process.

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2016. Vol. 10027, s. 268-284
Nyckelord [en]
Process improvement, Software testing, Decision support system, Integration testing, Test case selection, Prioritization, Optimization, Return on investment
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-32887DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49094-6_17Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84998880972OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-32887DiVA, id: diva2:956169
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THE 17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRODUCT-FOCUSED SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT PROFES'16, 22-24 Nov 2016, TRONDHEIM, Norway
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ITS-EASY Post Graduate School for Embedded Software and SystemsTOCSYC - Testing of Critical System Characteristics (KKS)IMPRINT - Innovative Model-Based Product Integration Testing (Vinnova)Tillgänglig från: 2016-08-29 Skapad: 2016-08-24 Senast uppdaterad: 2018-11-01Bibliografiskt granskad
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1. A Decision Support System for Integration Test Selection
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2016 (Engelska)Licentiatavhandling, sammanläggning (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
Abstract [en]

Software testing generally suffers from time and budget limitations. Indiscriminately executing all available test cases leads to sub-optimal exploitation of testing resources. Selecting too few test cases for execution on the other hand might leave a large number of faults undiscovered. Test case selection and prioritization techniques can lead to more efficient usage of testing resources and also early detection of faults. Test case selection addresses the problem of selecting a subset of an existing set of test cases, typically by discarding test cases that do not add any value in improving the quality of the software under test. Test case prioritization schedules test cases for execution in an order to increase their effectiveness at achieving some performance goals such as: earlier fault detection, optimal allocation of testing resources and reducing overall testing effort. In practice, prioritized selection of test cases requires the evaluation of different test case criteria, and therefore, this problem can be formulated as a multi-criteria decision making problem. As the number of decision criteria grows, application of a systematic decision making solution becomes a necessity. In this thesis, we propose a tool-supported framework using a decision support system, for prioritizing and selecting integration test cases in embedded system development. The framework provides a complete loop for selecting the best candidate test case for execution based on a finite set of criteria. The results of multiple case studies, done on a train control management subsystem from Bombardier Transportation AB in Sweden, demonstrate how our approach helps to select test cases in a systematic way. This can lead to early detection of faults while respecting various criteria. Also, we have evaluated a customized return on investment metric to quantify the economic benefits in optimizing system integration testing using our framework.

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Västerås: Mälardalen University, 2016
Serie
Mälardalen University Press Licentiate Theses, ISSN 1651-9256 ; 242
Nationell ämneskategori
Datorsystem
Forskningsämne
datavetenskap
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-33118 (URN)978-91-7485-282-0 (ISBN)
Presentation
2016-10-25, Omega, Mälardalens högskola, Västerås, 13:15 (Engelska)
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Tillgänglig från: 2016-09-12 Skapad: 2016-09-09 Senast uppdaterad: 2016-10-04Bibliografiskt granskad
2. Multi-Criteria Optimization of System Integration Testing
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2018 (Engelska)Doktorsavhandling, sammanläggning (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
Abstract [en]

Optimizing software testing process has received much attention over the last few decades. Test optimization is typically seen as a multi-criteria decision making problem. One aspect of test optimization involves test selection, prioritization and execution scheduling. Having an efficient test process can result in the satisfaction of many objectives such as cost and time minimization. It can also lead to on-time delivery and a better quality of the final software product. To achieve the goal of test efficiency, a set of criteria, having an impact on the test cases, need to be identified. The analysis of several industrial case studies and also state of the art in this thesis, indicate that the dependency between integration test cases is one such criterion, with a direct impact on the test execution results. Other criteria of interest include requirement coverage and test execution time. In this doctoral thesis, we introduce, apply and evaluate a set of approaches and tools for test execution optimization at industrial integration testing level in embedded software development. Furthermore, ESPRET (Estimation and Prediction of Execution Time) and sOrTES (Stochastic Optimizing of Test Case Scheduling) are our proposed supportive tools for predicting the execution time and the scheduling of manual integration test cases, respectively. All proposed methods and tools in this thesis, have been evaluated at industrial testing projects at Bombardier Transportation (BT) in Sweden. As a result of the scientific contributions made in this doctoral thesis, employing the proposed approaches has led to an improvement in terms of reducing redundant test execution failures of up to 40% with respect to the current test execution approach at BT. Moreover, an increase in the requirements coverage of up to 9.6% is observed at BT. In summary, the application of the proposed approaches in this doctoral thesis has shown to give considerable gains by optimizing test schedules in system integration testing of embedded software development.

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Västerås: Mälardalen University, 2018
Serie
Mälardalen University Press Dissertations, ISSN 1651-4238 ; 281
Nationell ämneskategori
Inbäddad systemteknik
Forskningsämne
datavetenskap
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-41273 (URN)978-91-7485-414-5 (ISBN)
Disputation
2018-12-21, Lambda, Mälardalens högskola, Västerås, 13:15 (Engelska)
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Tillgänglig från: 2018-11-02 Skapad: 2018-11-01 Senast uppdaterad: 2018-11-20Bibliografiskt granskad

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