Aristotle Analysis System -- Siemens Programs, HR Variants

OVERVIEW

This page provides access to variants of programs, versions, and test cases created originally by researchers at Siemens Corporate Research and provided to Mary Jean Harrold and Gregg Rothermel. Harrold, Rothermel, their students, and their colleagues have modified the programs, versions, and test cases, and built various test suites from the test cases, to make them usable by various tools and to make them suitable for the needs of various projects.

DOWNLOAD INFORMATION - Release 2.2

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schedule.tar.gz	2,252
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tcas.tar.gz	1,803
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

There are several papers that describe uses to which these subjects have been put.

The description of the original variants and their use in empirical studies are given in

M. Hutchins, H. Foster, T. Goradia, T. Ostrand. Experiments on the effectiveness of dataflow- and controlflow-based test adequacy criteria. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Engineering, May 1994, pages 191-200.

The descriptions of the HR-variants and the uses of releasees of those variants in empirical studies are given in a number of papers, including the following. NOTE: We continue to update these materials; also, some experiments require minor changes in the materials to accommodate the use of specific tools. Thus, some statistics about the subjects reported in these papers, such as lines of code, may differ in small ways from the statistics gathered on the current release of the subjects. Furthermore, statistics such as fault revealing behavior and coverage of tests were calculated on specific architectures and could vary under different compilers, OS's, and hardware platforms.

G. Rothermel, M. J. Harrold, J. Ostrin, C. Hong. An empirical study of the effects of minimization on the fault detection capabilities of test suites. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance, November 1998, pages 34-43.

G. Rothermel and M. J. Harrold. Empirical studies of a safe regression test selection technique. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 25, no. 6, June 1998, pages 401-419.

M. J. Harrold, G. Rothermel, R. Wu, and L. Yi. An empirical investigation of program spectra. In Proceedings of ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering, June 1998, pages 83-90.

T. Graves, M. J. Harrold, J. Kim, A. Porter, and G. Rothermel. An Empirical Study of Regression Test Selection Techniques. In Proceedings of Twentieth IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, April 1998, pages 188--197.

M. J. Harrold and N. Ci. Reuse-driven interprocedural slicing. In Proceedings of Twentieth International Conference on Software Engineering, April 1998, pages 74-83.

M. J. Harrold, G. Rothermel, and S. Sinha. Computation of interprocedural control dependence. In Proceedings of ACM International Symposium on Testing and Analysis, March 1998, pages 11-21.

THANKS

The work performed by Harrold, Rothermel, their students, and their colleagues on these subjects has been partially supported by

National Science Foundation National Young Investigator Award CCR-9696157 to Ohio State University (CCR-9357811 to Clemson University)

National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award CCR-9703108 to Oregon State University

National Science Foundation Experimental Software Systems Award CCR-9707792 to Ohio State University and Oregon State University.