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On Software Regression Test Parallelization

Series: Department Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Shouvick Mondal,  Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Date/Time: Feb 09 08:00:00

Location: Online Seminar ON-LINE

Abstract:
Software contributes significantly to our daily activities, ranging from small-scale basic utilities to large-scale safety-critical systems. With ever changing requirements comes the need for a mandatory software update operation to avoid disruption of service. However, the problem arises when unwanted bugs occur due to the update and pose a threat to the expected functionality of the software. To mitigate this issue, software testing calls for a systematic approach called regression testing. Software is said to have progressed if the new version is bug-free, otherwise it is said to have regressed. The regression testing component of the software development life cycle comprises several sub-components that can benefit from parallelization. In this talk, I mention my contributions towards the literature of software regression testing powered by multi-core parallelization. We overview challenges that prohibit efficient parallelization, and in depth discuss a lightweight approach that provides soundy automated parallel test-execution.
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Speaker Bio:
Shouvick Mondal received his Ph.D. degree from the department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India in 2021. Subsequently, he was a Researcher in Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil. Currently, he is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. His current research focuses on software engineering with software testing as a specialization. He regularly serves as a Program Committee member in the Artifact Evaluation track of conferences such as ISSTA, and PPoPP. He is also a journal reviewer for the Journal of Systems and Software. More information at: https://sites.google.com/view/shouvick

Host Faculty: R. Govindarajan