After getting a key to the lab, a badge for building access, a Buzz
card (GATech ID card), and a parking permit, I started focusing on my
project. I've been reading papers, talking to my mentors, and trying
both to get background knowledge and to understand my project. I'm
sort of starting to make progress. I think the fact that I have
somewhat limited experience with Java is going to be a bit of a
challenge this summer, but I'm glad, because that means I'll get to
know it a lot better.
My mentors are really nice. Mary Lou is Mary Jean's advisor, and she
won't be down here for the whole summer, but she'll be traveling back
and forth quite a bit (from Pittsburgh). We had lunch on Tuesday with
all the DMP participants (mentors and students) at Georgia Tech this
summer. I also live with two of the DMP participants (Kathy and
Rachel) and it has been nice to be able to talk about grad school
stuff with people who are going through the same process.
Terms:
The First Week: June 4 - June 8
Summary:
Representation and Analysis of Software. M.J. Harrold and
G. Rothermel. (December 1997).
Regression Test Selection for Java Software. M.J. Harrold, J. Jones,
T. Li, D. Liang, A. Orso, M. Pennings, S. Sinha, S. Spoon, and
A. Gujarathi, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Object-Oriented
Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2001).
Using Component Metadata to Support the Regression Testing of
Component-Based Software. Mary Jean Harrold, Alessandro Orso, David
Rosenblum, Gregg Rothermel, Mary Lou Soffa, Hyunsook Do, Proceedings
of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM
2001).
Basic Block - a sequence of consecutive statements
in which flow of control enters at the beginning and leaves at the end
without halt or possibility of branching except at the end.
Control Flow Graph (CFG)- a directed graph in
which each node represents a basic block and each edge represents the
flow of control between basic blocks.
Regression Testing - the process of validating modified
software to provide confidence that the changed parts of the software
behave as intended and that the unchanged parts of the software have
not been adversely affected by the modifications.
Regression Test Selection - the process of selecting an
appropriate subset of the original test suite for a given program to
use in regression testing. A safe
regression-test-selection technique is one that, under certain
assumptions, will never exclude a test case if that test case can
reveal faults in the modified software.
Coverage - the percentage of a particular type of
structural entities covered by a test run with respect to the total
number of that type of structural entity. Examples of kinds of
structural entities/types of coverage: statements, branches,
decisions, paths, methods, classes, etc.)
Metadata - data about components and metamethods for calculating or retrieving those data.