Implementing Content-Based Regression Test Selection Using the LLVM Intermediate Representation

• Typ der Arbeit: Masterarbeit
• Status der Arbeit: laufend
• Projekte: CADOS
• Betreuer: Tobias Landsberg, Daniel Lohmann
• Bearbeiter: Tino Lorenz

Unit testing is a commonly used technique to automatically test specific parts of a software (unit) in order to ensure correctness. However, running all tests after every change can take a significant amount of time and energy.

Therefore, we describe TASTING, an approach for efficiently selecting and reusing regression-test executions across program changes, branches, and variants in continuous integration settings. Instead of detecting changes between two variants of the software-under-test, TASTING recursively composes hashes of the defining elements with all their dependencies on AST-level at compile time into a semantic fingerprint of the test and its execution environment. This fingerprint is easy to store and remains stable across changes if the test’s run-time behavior is not affected.

The goal of this thesis is to replace the AST-level hashing procedure with an LLVM intermediate representation-based approach. For the evaluation, the new implementation than should be applied to various C/C++ open-source software projects.

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@inproceedings{dietrich:17:usenix,
location = {Berkeley, CA, USA},
author = {Christian Dietrich and Valentin Rothberg and Ludwig Füracker and Andreas Ziegler and Daniel Lohmann},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2017 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '17)},
entrysubtype = {Conference},
location = {Santa Clara, CA, USA},
month = {July},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
title = {{cHash:} Detection of Redundant Compilations via {AST} Hashing},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc17/technical-sessions/presentation/dietrich},
venue = {Santa Clara, CA, USA},
year = {2017},
}

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@inproceedings{landsberg:22:icsoft,
location = {Lisbon, Portugal},
author = {Landsberg, Tobias and Dietrich, Christian and Lohmann, Daniel},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Software Technologies - ICSOFT},
doi = {10.5220/0011139200003266},
entrysubtype = {Conference},
isbn = {978-989-758-588-3},
issn = {2184-2833},
month = {July},
organization = {INSTICC},
pages = {33-45},
publisher = {SciTePress},
title = {TASTING: Reuse Test-case Execution by Global AST Hashing},
year = {2022},
}

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