Test migration, which enables the reuse of test cases crafted with knowledge and creativity by testers across various platforms and programming languages, has exhibited effectiveness in mobile app testing. However, unit test migration at the source code level has not garnered adequate attention and exploration. In this paper, we propose a novel cross-language and cross-platform test migration methodology, named MUT, which consists of four modules: code mapping, test case filtering, test case translation, and test case adaptation. MUT initially calculates code mappings to establish associations between source and target projects, and identifies suitable unit tests for migration from the source project. Then, MUT’s code translation component generates a syntax tree by parsing the code to be migrated and progressively converts each node in the tree, ultimately generating the target tests, which are compiled and executed in the target project. Moreover, we develop a web tool to assist developers in test migration. The effectiveness of our approach has been validated on five prevalent functional domain projects within the open-source community. We migrate a total of 550 unit tests and submitted pull requests to augment test code in the target projects on GitHub. By the time of this paper submission, 253 of these tests have already been merged into the projects (including 197 unit tests in the Luliyucoordinate-LeetCode project and 56 unit tests in the Rangerlee-HtmlParser project). Through running these tests, we identify 5 bugs, and 2 functional defects, and submitted corresponding issues to the project. The evaluation substantiates that MUT’s test migration is both viable and beneficial across programming languages and different projects.
Fri 19 AprDisplayed time zone: Lisbon change
11:00 - 12:30 | Evolution 4Research Track / Journal-first Papers / Software Engineering in Practice at Glicínia Quartin Chair(s): Wesley Assunção North Carolina State University | ||
11:00 15mTalk | MUT: Human-in-the-Loop Unit Test Migration Research Track Yi Gao Zhejiang University, Xing Hu Zhejiang University, Tongtong Xu Huawei, Xin Xia Huawei Technologies, David Lo Singapore Management University, Xiaohu Yang Zhejiang University | ||
11:15 15mTalk | Streamlining Java Programming: Uncovering Well-Formed Idioms with IdioMine Research Track Yanming Yang Zhejiang University, Xing Hu Zhejiang University, Xin Xia Huawei Technologies, David Lo Singapore Management University, Xiaohu Yang Zhejiang University | ||
11:30 15mTalk | Fine-grained, accurate and scalable source differencing Research Track | ||
11:45 15mTalk | A Catalog of Unintended Software Dependencies in Multi-Lingual Systems at ASML Software Engineering in Practice Tom Groot Eindhoven University of Technology & ASML, Lina Ochoa Eindhoven University of Technology, Bogdan Lazar ASML, Jacob Krüger Eindhoven University of Technology | ||
12:00 7mTalk | Runtime Evolution of Bitcoin’s Consensus Rules Journal-first Papers Jakob Svennevik Notland Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Mariusz Nowostawski Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Jingyue Li Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) | ||
12:07 7mTalk | CfgNet: A Framework for Tracking Equality-Based Configuration Dependencies Across a Software Project Journal-first Papers Sebastian Simon Leipzig University, Nicolai Ruckel Secunet Security Networks AG, Norbert Siegmund Leipzig University | ||
12:14 7mTalk | Hyperparameter Optimization for AST Differencing Journal-first Papers Matias Martinez Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Jean-Rémy Falleri Univ. Bordeaux, Bordeaux INP, CNRS, LaBRI, UMR5800, F-33400 Talence, France, Martin Monperrus KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Matias Martinez Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Matias Martinez Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |