CAREER: Testing and Maintaining Evolving Software Systems

职业：测试和维护不断发展的软件系统

• 批准号: 9703108
• 负责人: Gregg Rothermel
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Oregon State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-09-01 至 2002-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9703108&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Testing; Maintaining; Evolving; Software

9703108 Useful software evolves: It is corrected, enhanced, and adapted to new platforms. The cost of such software is dominated by the costs of testing and maintenance; the long-term quality of such software is dependent on the effectiveness of testing and maintenance. The overall goal of this project is to improve the state of the art and the state of the practice in software testing and maintenance. The research component of this work addresses regression testing: the testing of modified software. This effort has two primary objectives: (1) to develop efficient, effective, and practical techniques for selectively retesting modified software; (2) to analytically and empirically investigate factors in software and test design that affect the regression testability of software, and develop techniques for measuring and improving regression testability. The educational component of this work investigates a maintenance-and-testing- first software engineering curriculum, in which students experience the problems of maintaining and testing an existing software system and specify and design enhancements to the system. The objectives of this effort are: (1) to provide practical experience with testing and maintenance, and (2) to encourage future software engineers to proactively evaluate the impact of their actions on testability and maintainability. ***

9703108有用的软件演变：它被纠正，增强，并适应新的平台。这类软件的成本主要由测试和维护成本决定;这类软件的长期质量取决于测试和维护的有效性。该项目的总体目标是提高软件测试和维护的技术水平和实践水平。这项工作的研究部分涉及回归测试：修改软件的测试。 这项工作有两个主要目标：（1）开发高效，有效和实用的技术，有选择地重新测试修改后的软件;（2）分析和经验调查软件和测试设计中的因素，影响软件的回归可测试性，并开发技术测量和改善回归可测试性。这项工作的教育组成部分调查维护和测试第一的软件工程课程，在学生的经验，维护和测试现有的软件系统的问题，并指定和设计增强系统。这项工作的目标是：（1）提供测试和维护的实践经验，（2）鼓励未来的软件工程师主动评估他们的行为对可测试性和可维护性的影响。 ***