Using Large Language Models to Support the Workflow of Differential Testing
Many software development teams use differential testing as a quality gate in their release process. Differential testing—namely, comparing behavioral differences between a system in production and a system in test—is a laborious process to label changes as regressions, expected changes, or incidental changes (e.g. those due to nondeterminism or timing). This manual process involves inspecting large textual artifacts, like logs, pull requests, and team discussions, which suggests that Large Language Models (LLMs) could be helpful. In this paper, we engage with the team developing a central Azure service to understand their work practice for differential testing. We used a design probe method to elicit feedback about several ways to use LLMs to improve their work practice, including automatically labeling behavior differences and providing summaries of various artifacts and discussions. Release engineers on the team report that predicting a difference’s label would save them effort, but they want an explicit rationale to improve their trust in the prediction; they found the generated summaries to be informative, if a bit wordy.
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14:00 - 15:20 | Testing 4Industry Papers / Research Papers / Demonstrations at Cosmos 3D Chair(s): Antonio Mastropaolo William and Mary, USA | ||
14:00 20mTalk | Detecting and Reducing the Factual Hallucinations of Large Language Models with Metamorphic Testing Research Papers Weibin Wu Sun Yat-sen University, Yuhang Cao Sun Yat-sen University, Ning Yi Sun Yat-sen University, Rongyi Ou Sun Yat-sen University, Zibin Zheng Sun Yat-sen University DOI | ||
14:20 10mTalk | A Tool for Generating Exceptional Behavior Tests With Large Language Models Demonstrations Linghan Zhong University of Texas Austin, Samuel Yuan The University of Texas at Austin, Jiyang Zhang University of Texas at Austin, Yu Liu Meta, Pengyu Nie University of Waterloo, Junyi Jessy Li University of Texas at Austin, USA, Milos Gligoric The University of Texas at Austin | ||
14:30 20mTalk | Using Large Language Models to Support the Workflow of Differential Testing Industry Papers Arun Krishna Vajjala George Mason University, Ajay Krishna Vajjala George Mason University, Carmen Badea Microsoft Research, Christian Bird Microsoft Research, Jade D'Souza Microsoft, Robert DeLine Microsoft Research, Mikhail Demyanyuk Microsoft, Jason Entenmann Microsoft Research, Nicole Forsgren Microsoft Research, Aliaksandr Hramadski Microsoft, Haris Mohammad Microsoft, Sandeepan Sanyal Microsoft, Oleg Surmachev Microsoft, Thomas Zimmermann University of California, Irvine | ||
14:50 20mTalk | Adaptive Random Testing with Qgrams: the Illusion Comes True Research Papers Matteo Biagiola Università della Svizzera italiana, Robert Feldt Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Paolo Tonella USI Lugano DOI Pre-print | ||
15:10 10mTalk | Dynamic Application Security Testing for Kubernetes Deployment: An Experience Report from Industry Industry Papers Shazibul Islam Shamim Kennesaw State University, Hanyang Hu Company A, Akond Rahman Auburn University Pre-print |
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