Reordering Tests for Faster Test Suite Execution

Panagiotis Stratis; Ajitha Rajan

doi:10.1145/3183440.3195048

Reordering Tests for Faster Test Suite Execution

Panagiotis Stratis
, Ajitha Rajan

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Abstract

As software takes on more responsibility, it gets increasingly complex, requiring an extremely large number of tests for effective validation [1, 6]. Executing these large test suites is expensive, both in terms of time and energy. Cache misses are a significant contributing factor to execution time of software. In this paper, we propose an approach that helps order test executions in a test suite in such a way that instruction cache misses are reduced, and thereby execution time.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceeedings
Publisher	ACM
Pages	442-443
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-5663-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3183440.3195048
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	40th International Conference on Software Engineering - Gothenburg, Sweden Duration: 27 May 2018 → 3 Jun 2018 https://www.icse2018.org/

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Conference	40th International Conference on Software Engineering
Abbreviated title	ICSE 2018
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Gothenburg
Period	27/05/18 → 3/06/18
Internet address	https://www.icse2018.org/

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