Non-Flaky and Nearly-Optimal Time-based Treatment of Asynchronous Wait Web Tests
Asynchronous waits are a common root cause of flaky tests and a major time-influential factor of web application testing. We build a dataset of 49 reproducible asynchronous wait flaky tests and their fixes from 26 open-source projects to study their characteristics in web testing. Our study reveals that developers adjusted wait time to address asynchronous wait flakiness in about 63% of cases (31 out of 49), even when the underlying causes lie elsewhere. From this, we introduce TRaf, an automated time-based repair for asynchronous wait flakiness in web applications. TRaf determines appropriate wait times for asynchronous calls in web applications by analyzing code similarity and past change history. Its key insight is that efficient wait times can be inferred from the current or past codebase since developers tend to repeat similar mistakes. Our analysis shows that TRaf can statically suggest a shorter wait time to alleviate async wait flakiness immediately upon the detection, reducing test execution time by 11.1% compared to the timeout values initially chosen by developers. With optional dynamic tuning, TRaf can reduce the execution time by 16.8% in its initial refinement compared to developer-written patches and by 6.2% compared to the post-refinements of these original patches. Overall, we sent 16 pull requests from our dataset, each fixing one test, to the developers. So far, three have been accepted by the developers.
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14:00 - 15:30 | UI TestingResearch Papers / Journal First / Industry Papers at Andromeda Chair(s): Chunyang Chen TU Munich | ||
14:00 10mTalk | ProphetAgent: Automatically Synthesizing GUI Tests from Test Cases in Natural Language for Mobile Apps Industry Papers Qichao Kong ByteDance, Zhengwei Lv ByteDance, Yiheng Xiong East China Normal University, Jingling Sun University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Ting Su East China Normal University, Dingchun Wang ByteDance Ltd, Beijing, China, Letao Li ByteDance Ltd, Beijing, China, Xu Yang ByteDance, Gang Huo ByteDance | ||
14:10 20mTalk | Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Bug-Aware Automated GUI Testing via Retrieval Augmentation Research Papers Mengzhuo Chen Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhe Liu Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chunyang Chen TU Munich, Junjie Wang Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Boyu Wu University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Jun Hu Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qing Wang Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences DOI | ||
14:30 20mTalk | A Mixed-Methods Study of Model-Based GUI Testing in Real-World Industrial Settings Research Papers Shaoheng Cao Nanjing University, Renyi Chen Samsung Electronics（China）R&D Centre, Wenhua Yang Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Minxue Pan Nanjing University, Xuandong Li Nanjing University DOI | ||
14:50 20mTalk | Non-Flaky and Nearly-Optimal Time-based Treatment of Asynchronous Wait Web Tests Journal First yu pei , Jeongju Sohn Kyungpook National University, Sarra Habchi Ubisoft Montréal, Mike Papadakis University of Luxembourg | ||
15:10 20mTalk | LLMDroid: Enhancing Automated Mobile App GUI Testing Coverage with Large Language Model Guidance Research Papers Chenxu Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Tianming Liu Monash Univerisity, Yanjie Zhao Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Minghui Yang OPPO, Haoyu Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology DOI | ||
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