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ASE 2020
Mon 21 - Fri 25 September 2020 Melbourne, Australia
Tue 22 Sep 2020 08:00 - 08:20 at Wombat - Compiler and Systems Testing Chair(s): Yanyan Jiang

A key challenge in automatic Web testing is the generation of syntactically and semantically valid input values that can exercise the many functionalities that impose constraints on the validity of the inputs. Existing test case generation techniques either rely on manually curated catalogs of values, or extract values from external data sources, such as the Web or publicly available knowledge bases. Unfortunately, relying on manual effort is generally too expensive for most practical applications, while domain-specific and application-specific data can be hardly found either on the Web or in general purpose knowledge bases. This paper proposes DBInputs, a novel approach that reuses the data from the database of the target Web applications, to automatically identify domain-specific and application-specific inputs, and effectively fulfil the validity constraints present in the tested Web pages. DBInputs can properly cope with system testing and maintenance testing efforts, since databases are naturally and inexpensively available in those phases. To extract valid inputs from the application databases, DBInputs exploits the syntactic and semantic similarity between the identifiers of the input fields and the ones in the tables of the database, automatically resolving the mismatch between the user interface and the schema of the database. Our experiments provide initial evidence that DBInputs can outperform both random input selection and LINK, a state-of-the-art approach for searching inputs from knowledge bases.

Tue 22 Sep

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08:00 - 09:00
Compiler and Systems TestingNIER track / Research Papers at Wombat
Chair(s): Yanyan Jiang Nanjing University
08:00
20m
Talk
Plug the Database & Play With Automatic Testing: Improving System Testing by Exploiting Persistent Data
Research Papers
Diego Clerissi , Giovanni Denaro University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, Marco Mobilio University of Milano Bicocca, Leonardo Mariani University of Milano Bicocca
08:20
20m
Talk
Enhanced Compiler Bug Isolation via Memoized Search
Research Papers
Junjie Chen Tianjin University, China, Haoyang Ma College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Lingming Zhang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
08:40
10m
Talk
Generating Highly-structured Input Data by Combining Search-based Testing and Grammar-based Fuzzing
NIER track
Mitchell Olsthoorn Delft University of Technology, Arie van Deursen Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, Annibale Panichella Delft University of Technology
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
08:50
10m
Talk
Closer to the Edge: Testing Compilers More Thoroughly by Being Less Conservative About Undefined Behaviour
NIER track
Karine Even-Mendoza Imperial College London, Cristian Cadar Imperial College London, UK, Alastair F. Donaldson Imperial College London
Pre-print Media Attached