%S International Conference on Software Engineering
%A C Henard
%A M Papadakis
%A M Harman
%A Y Jia
%A YL Traon
%O This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
%J Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
%T Comparing white-box and black-box test prioritization
%X Although white-box regression test prioritization has been well-studied, the more recently introduced black-box prioritization approaches have neither been compared against each other nor against more well-established white-box techniques. We present a comprehensive experimental comparison of several test prioritization techniques, including wellestablished white-box strategies and more recently introduced black-box approaches. We found that Combinatorial Interaction Testing and diversity-based techniques (Input Model Diversity and Input Test Set Diameter) perform best among the black-box approaches. Perhaps surprisingly, we found little difference between black-box and white-box performance (at most 4% fault detection rate difference). We also found the overlap between black-and white-box faults to be high: the first 10% of the prioritized test suites already agree on at least 60% of the faults found. These are positive findings for practicing regression testers who may not have source code available, thereby making white-box techniques inapplicable. We also found evidence that both black-box and white-box prioritization remain robust over multiple system releases.
%K Regression Testing, White-box, Black-box
%P 523-534
%B ICSE '16: Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering
%E L Dillon
%E W Visser
%E L Williams
%V 38
%C New York
%D 2016
%I Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
%L discovery1502193