Program slicing and execution tracing for differential testing at adobe analytics

Darryl Jarman; Scott Hunt; Dave Towey

doi:10.1145/3387904.3389292

Program slicing and execution tracing for differential testing at adobe analytics

Darryl Jarman, Scott Hunt, Dave Towey

School of Computer Science

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Abstract

This paper reports on the use of program slicing concepts andpartial execution tracing at Adobe Analytics to address a majorlimitation of differential testing-namely, how to deal with thelarge numbers of differences typically produced by this regressiontesting technique. Manual verification, typically used to verify detected differences, is tedious, time-consuming and error-prone. Thisseverely limits the volume of testing that can be done and therebyreduces adoption of differential testing. It is hoped that, by sharing this experience, researchers with expertise in program slicingmight be motivated to help solve some of the issues and limitationsencountered during this novel application of slicing to a real-worldindustrial problem.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 28th International Conference on Program Comprehension, ICPC 2020
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	411-415
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450379588
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3387904.3389292
Publication status	Published - 13 Jul 2020
Event	28th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension, ICPC 2020, collocated with the 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2020 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 13 Jul 2020 → 15 Jul 2020

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Name	IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

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Conference	28th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension, ICPC 2020, collocated with the 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2020
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	13/07/20 → 15/07/20

Keywords

Adobe Analytics
Differential Testing
Partial Execution Tracing
Program Slicing

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Hardware and Architecture
Software

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Jarman, D, Hunt, S & Towey, D 2020, Program slicing and execution tracing for differential testing at adobe analytics. in Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 28th International Conference on Program Comprehension, ICPC 2020. IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 411-415, 28th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension, ICPC 2020, collocated with the 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2020, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 13/07/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3387904.3389292

Program slicing and execution tracing for differential testing at adobe analytics. / Jarman, Darryl; Hunt, Scott; Towey, Dave.
Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 28th International Conference on Program Comprehension, ICPC 2020. IEEE Computer Society, 2020. p. 411-415 (IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension).

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