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ICSE 2023
Sun 14 - Sat 20 May 2023 Melbourne, Australia
Fri 19 May 2023 14:45 - 14:52 at Meeting Room 105 - Fault injection and mutation Chair(s): Lingxiao Jiang

Automated test generators, such as search-based software testing (SBST) techniques are primarily guided by coverage information. As a result, they are very effective at achieving high code coverage. However, is high code coverage alone sufficient to detect bugs effectively? In this paper, we propose a new SBST technique, predictive many objective sorting algorithm (PreMOSA), which augments coverage information with defect prediction information to decide where to increase the test coverage in the class under test (CUT).

Through an experimental evaluation using 420 labelled bugs on the Defects4J benchmark and using theoretical defect predictors, we demonstrate the improved effectiveness and efficiency of PreMOSA in detecting bugs when using any acceptable defect predictor, i.e., a defect predictor with recall and precision >= 75%, compared to the state-of-the-art dynamic many objective sorting algorithm (DynaMOSA). PreMOSA detects up to 8.3% more labelled bugs on average than DynaMOSA when given a time budget of 2 minutes for test generation per CUT.

Fri 19 May

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13:45 - 15:15
13:45
15m
Talk
Coverage Guided Fault Injection for Cloud Systems
Technical Track
Yu Gao Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Wensheng Dou Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dong Wang Institute of software, Chinese academy of sciences, Wenhan Feng Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jun Wei Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Chongqing School, Hua Zhong Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tao Huang Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences
Pre-print
14:00
15m
Talk
Diver: Oracle-Guided SMT Solver Testing with Unrestricted Random Mutations
Technical Track
Jongwook Kim Korea University, Sunbeom So Korea University, Hakjoo Oh Korea University
14:15
15m
Talk
Identifying Defect Injection Risks from Analysis and Design Diagrams: An Industrial Case Study at Sony
SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice
Yoji Imanishi Sony Global Manufacturing&Operations, Kazuhiro Kumon Sony Global Manufacturing&Operations, Shuji Morisaki Nagoya University
14:30
7m
Talk
DaMAT: A Data-driven Mutation Analysis Tool
DEMO - Demonstrations
Enrico Viganò University of Luxembourg, Oscar Cornejo SnT Centre, University of Luxembourg, Fabrizio Pastore University of Luxembourg, Lionel Briand University of Luxembourg; University of Ottawa
Pre-print
14:37
7m
Talk
Mutation testing in the wild: findings from GitHub
Journal-First Papers
Ana B. Sánchez University of Seville, Pedro Delgado-Pérez Universidad de Cádiz, Inmaculada Medina-Bulo Universidad de Cádiz, Sergio Segura University of Seville
Link to publication DOI
14:45
7m
Talk
An Experimental Assessment of Using Theoretical Defect Predictors to Guide Search-Based Software Testing
Journal-First Papers
Anjana Perera Oracle Labs, Australia, Aldeida Aleti Monash University, Burak Turhan University of Oulu, Marcel Böhme MPI-SP, Germany and Monash University, Australia
Link to publication DOI
14:52
7m
Talk
Assurance Cases as Data: A Manifesto
NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results
Claudio Menghi McMaster University, Canada, Torin Viger , Alessio Di Sandro University of Toronto, Chris Rees Critical Systems Labs, Jeffrey Joyce Critical System Labs Inc., Marsha Chechik University of Toronto
15:00
7m
Talk
Predictive Mutation Analysis via Natural Language Channel in Source Code
Journal-First Papers
Jinhan Kim KAIST, Juyoung Jeon Handong Global University, Shin Hong Handong Global University, Shin Yoo KAIST
Link to publication Pre-print