* ICSE 2018 *
Sun 27 May - Sun 3 June 2018 Gothenburg, Sweden
Thu 31 May 2018 11:40 - 12:00 at Congress Hall - Test Improvement Chair(s): Yves Le Traon

Testing is the primary approach for detecting software defects. A major challenge faced by testers lies in crafting efficient test suites, able to detect a maximum number of bugs with manageable effort. To do so, they rely on coverage criteria, which define some precise test objectives to be covered. However, many common criteria specify a significant number of objectives that occur to be infeasible or redundant in practice, like covering dead code or semantically equal mutants. Such objectives are well-known to be harmful to the design of test suites, impacting both the efficiency and precision of the tester’s effort. This work introduces a sound and scalable technique to prune out a significant part of the infeasible and redundant objectives produced by a panel of white-box criteria. In a nutshell, we reduce this task to proving the validity of logical assertions in the code under test. The technique is implemented in a tool that relies on weakest-precondition calculus and SMT solving for proving the assertions. The tool is built on top of the Frama-C verification platform, which we carefully tune for our specific scalability needs. The experiments reveal that the pruning capabilities of the tool can reduce the number of targeted test objectives in a program by up to 27% and scale to real programs of 200K lines, making it possible to automate a painstaking part of their current testing process.

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Thu 31 May

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11:00 - 12:30
Test ImprovementTechnical Papers at Congress Hall
Chair(s): Yves Le Traon University of Luxembourg
11:00
20m
Talk
DeFlaker: Automatically Detecting Flaky Tests
Technical Papers
Jonathan Bell George Mason University, Owolabi Legunsen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Michael Hilton Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Lamyaa Eloussi , Tifany Yung , Darko Marinov University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Pre-print Media Attached
11:20
20m
Talk
DetReduce: Minimizing Android GUI Test Suites for Regression Testing
Technical Papers
Wontae Choi , Koushik Sen University of California, Berkeley, George Necula University of California, Berkeley, Wenyu Wang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11:40
20m
Talk
Time to Clean your Test Objectives
Technical Papers
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12:00
20m
Talk
Prioritizing Browser Environments for Web Application Test Execution
Technical Papers
Junghyun Kwon , In-Young Ko Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Gregg Rothermel University of Nebraska - Lincoln
12:20
10m
Talk
Q&A in groups
Technical Papers