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An overview of regression testing

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 24, Issue 1

Pages 69 - 73

https://doi.org/10.1145/308769.308790

Published: 01 January 1999 Publication History

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Regression testing is an important part of the software development life cycle. Many articles have been published lately detailing the different approaches. This article is an overview of regression testing in the following areas: types of regression testing; unit, integration and system level testing, regression testing of global variables, regression testing of object-oriented software, comparisons of selective regression techniques, and cost comparisons of the types of regression testing.

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