creators_name: Mei, Lijun
creators_name: Zhang, Zhenyu
creators_name: Chan, W. K.
creators_name: Tse, T. H.
type: conference_item
datestamp: 2009-04-06 19:11:20
lastmod: 2009-04-07 14:02:39
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title: Test Case Prioritization for Regression Testing of Service-Oriented Business Applications
ispublished: pub
full_text_status: public
pres_type: paper
abstract: Regression testing assures the quality of modified service-oriented
business applications against unintended changes. However, a
typical regression test suite is large in size. Earlier execution of those
test cases that may detect failures is attractive. Many existing
prioritization techniques order test cases according to their respective
coverage of program statements in a previous version of the
application. On the other hand, industrial service-oriented business
applications are typically written in orchestration languages such as
WS-BPEL and integrated with workflow steps and web services via
XPath and WSDL. Faults in these artifacts may cause the application
to extract wrong data from messages, leading to failures in service
compositions. Surprisingly, current regression testing research
hardly considers these artifacts. We propose a multilevel coverage
model to capture the business process, XPath, and WSDL from the
perspective of regression testing. We develop a family of test case
prioritization techniques atop the model. Empirical results show that
our techniques can achieve significantly higher rates of fault
detection than existing techniques.

date: 2009-04
pagerange: 901-901
event_title: 18th International World Wide Web Conference
event_location: Madrid, Spain
event_dates: April 20th-24th, 2009
event_type: conference
refereed: TRUE
citation: Mei, Lijun <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Mei=3ALijun=3A=3A.html> and Zhang, Zhenyu <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Zhang=3AZhenyu=3A=3A.html> and Chan, W. K. <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Chan=3AW=2E_K=2E=3A=3A.html> and Tse, T. H. <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Tse=3AT=2E_H=2E=3A=3A.html> (2009) Test Case Prioritization for Regression Testing of Service-Oriented Business Applications. In: 18th International World Wide Web Conference, April 20th-24th, 2009, Madrid, Spain.
document_url: http://www2009.eprints.org/91/1/p901.pdf