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ICSE 2023
Sun 14 - Sat 20 May 2023 Melbourne, Australia
Wed 17 May 2023 16:00 - 16:15 at Meeting Room 102 - Test generation Chair(s): Chunyang Chen

To assure high quality of mobile applications (apps for short), automated UI testing triggers events (associated with UI elements on app UIs) without human intervention, aiming to maximize code coverage and find unique crashes. To achieve high test effectiveness, automated UI testing prioritizes a UI event based on its exploration value (e.g., the increased code coverage of future exploration rooted from the UI event). Various strategies have been proposed to estimate the exploration value of a UI event without considering its exploration diversity (reflecting the variance of covered code entities achieved by explorations rooted from this UI event across its different triggerings), resulting in low test effectiveness, especially on complex mobile apps. To address the preceding problem, in this paper, we propose a new approach named BADGE to prioritize UI events considering both their exploration values and exploration diversity for effective automated UI testing. In particular, we design a hierarchical multi-armed bandit model to effectively estimate the exploration value and exploration diversity of a UI event based on its historical explorations along with historical explorations rooted from UI events in the same UI group. We evaluate BADGE on 21 highly popular industrial apps widely used by previous related work. Experimental results show that BADGE outperforms state-of-the-art/practice tools with 18%-146% relative code coverage improvement and finding 1.19-5.20x unique crashes, demonstrating the effectiveness of BADGE. Further experimental studies confirm the benefits brought by BADGE’s individual algorithms.

Wed 17 May

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15:45 - 17:15
15:45
7m
Talk
SoapOperaTG: A Tool for System Knowledge Graph Based Soap Opera Test Generation
DEMO - Demonstrations
Yanqi Su Australian National University, Zheming Han , Zhenchang Xing CSIRO’s Data61; Australian National University, Xiwei (Sherry) Xu CSIRO’s Data61, Liming Zhu CSIRO’s Data61, Qinghua Lu CSIRO’s Data61
15:52
7m
Talk
GUI Testing to the Power of Parallel Q-Learning
DEMO - Demonstrations
Marco Mobilio University of Milano Bicocca, Diego Clerissi University of Milano-Bicocca, Giovanni Denaro University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, Leonardo Mariani University of Milano-Bicocca
16:00
15m
Talk
BADGE: Prioritizing UI Events with Hierarchical Multi-Armed Bandits for Automated UI Testing
Technical Track
Dezhi Ran Peking University, Hao Wang Peking University, China, Wenyu Wang University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Tao Xie Peking University
16:15
15m
Talk
Efficiency Matters: Speeding Up Automated Testing with GUI Rendering InferenceDistinguished Paper Award
Technical Track
Sidong Feng Monash University, Mulong Xie Australian National University, Chunyang Chen Monash University
Pre-print
16:30
15m
Talk
CodaMOSA: Escaping Coverage Plateaus in Test Generation with Pre-trained Large Language Models
Technical Track
Caroline Lemieux University of British Columbia, Jeevana Priya Inala Microsoft Research, Shuvendu K. Lahiri Microsoft Research, Siddhartha Sen Microsoft Research
16:45
15m
Talk
Simulation-Driven Automated End-to-End Test and Oracle Inference
SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice
Shreshth Tuli Meta Platforms Inc. and Imperial College, Kinga Bojarczuk Facebook, Natalija Gucevska Facebook, Mark Harman University College London, Xiaoyu Wang Meta Platforms Inc., Graham Wright Meta Platforms Inc.
17:00
7m
Talk
Reasoning-Based Software Testing
NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results
Luca Giamattei Università di Napoli Federico II, Roberto Pietrantuono Università di Napoli Federico II, Stefano Russo Università di Napoli Federico II
Pre-print
17:07
7m
Talk
Automated Generation and Evaluation of JMH Microbenchmark Suites From Unit Tests
Journal-First Papers
Mostafa Jangali Concordia University, Yiming Tang Concordia University, Niclas Alexandersson Chalmers University of Technology, Philipp Leitner Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden / University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Jinqiu Yang Concordia University, Weiyi Shang University of Waterloo