Improving Performance Analysis of Software System Versions Using Change-Based Test Selection

Abstract

The detection of performance bugs by measurements is very time-consuming since measurements must be repeated often in order to get reliable results. Especially in performance analysis of software system versions (PeASS), where performance bugs are detected by comparing the performance of unit tests of different revisions, the testing process takes much time. Using change-based test selection enables to execute only those performance unit tests which may have changed results. This leads to a significant reduction of test execution time.