Testing Database Applications

Summary: Database-state aware testing for applications: HTDGen creates test databases, HTTrace runs regression tests, HTPar enables parallel tests. HTTrace learns from each run to replan the next test; HTPar scales tests across machines for near-linear speedups. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3871
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 5.5044887e-05
Overall Rank: 8,030 | 44.91%
DOI: 10.1145/1142473.1142572

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Carsten Binnig (University of Heidelberg)
2. Donald Kossmann (ETH Zurich)
3. Eric Lo (ETH Zurich)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{binnig_sigmod06,
        title = {{Testing Database Applications}},
        author = {Binnig, Carsten and Kossmann, Donald and Lo, Eric},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '06},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1142473.1142572},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1142473.1142572},
        year = {2006}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,669	Generating XML Structure Using Examples and Constraints	2008	VLDB	6.5736436e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
105	Quickly Generating Billion-Record Synthetic Databases	1994	SIGMOD	0.00033877899
938	Flexible Database Generators	2005	VLDB	0.00013089351
6,872	Efficient Regression Tests for Database Applications	2005	CIDR	5.7496345e-05
12,758	Parallel Execution of Test Runs for Database Application Systems	2005	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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