Selection of regression system tests for security policy evolution

Jee Hyun Hwang, Tao Xie, Donia El Kateb, Tejeddine Mouelhi, Yves Le Traon

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Abstract

As security requirements of software often change, developers may modify security policies such as access control policies (policies in short) according to evolving requirements. To increase confidence that the modification of policies is correct, developers conduct regression testing. However, rerunning all of existing system test cases could be costly and time-consuming. To address this issue, we develop a regression-test-selection approach, which selects every system test case that may reveal regression faults caused by policy changes. Our evaluation results show that our test-selection approach reduces a substantial number of system test cases efficiently.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2012 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2012 - Proceedings
Pages266-269
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event2012 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2012 - Essen, Germany
Duration: Sep 3 2012Sep 7 2012

Publication series

Name2012 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2012 - Proceedings

Other

Other2012 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2012
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityEssen
Period9/3/129/7/12

Keywords

  • Regression testing
  • Security policy
  • Test selection

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software

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