Better Early Than Never: Performance Test Acceleration by Regression Test Selection

Abstract

Currently, performance tests take much time and are therefore not able to provide fast feedback. Fast feedback on performance tests would support finding performance problems. In order to accelerate performance tests we provide a regression test selection method for performance tests. It is based on test selection by (1) code analysis and (2) trace analysis. We show the efficiency of our approach by comparison with the test selection tools EKSTAZI and Infinitest.