Debugging and maintaining pragmatically reused test suites

While various validation strategies are employed by industrial developers in the context of pragmatic reuse, none is as reliable and effective as test case reuse at discovering and repairing bugs inserted during pragmatic reuse. Despite the fact that semi-automatically reused test cases contain non-trivial adaptive code, their maintainability is equivalent to or exceeds that of manually reused test suites. The approach could be improved, however, by adopting the suggestions of our participants to increase usability.