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ICST 2020
Sat 24 - Wed 28 October 2020 Porto, Portugal
Mon 26 Oct 2020 10:45 - 11:15 at Infante - RT6 - Web Testing Chair(s): José Campos
Mon 26 Oct 2020 21:45 - 22:15 at Infante - RT6 - Web Testing Chair(s): Fabiano Ferrari

Exploratory testing (ET) is a software testing approach that complements automated testing by leveraging business expertise. It has gained momentum over the last decades as it appeals testers to exploit their business knowledge to stress the system under test (SUT). Exploratory tests, unlike automated tests, are defined and executed on-the-fly by testers. Testers who perform exploratory tests may be biased by their past experience and therefore may miss anomalies or unusual interactions proposed by the SUT. This is even more complex in the context of web applications, which typically expose a huge number of interaction paths to their users. As testers of these applications cannot remember all the sequences of interactions they performed, they may fail to deeply explore the application scope. This paper therefore introduces a new approach to assist testers in widely exploring any web application. In particular, our approach monitors the online interactions performed by the testers to suggest in real-time the probabilities of performing next interactions. Looking at these probabilities, we claim that the testers who favour interactions that have a low probability (because they were rarely performed), will increase the diversity of their explorations. Our approach defines a prediction model, based on n-grams, that encodes the history of past interactions and that supports the estimation of the probabilities. Integrated within a web browser extension, it automatically and transparently injects feedback within the application itself. We conduct a controlled experiment and a qualitative study to assess our approach. Results show that it prevents testers to be trapped in already tested loops, and succeeds to assist them in performing deeper explorations of the SUT.

Mon 26 Oct

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10:45 - 12:15
RT6 - Web TestingResearch Papers at Infante +11h
Chair(s): José Campos University of Lisbon, Portugal
10:45
30m
Talk
Fostering the Diversity of Exploratory Testing in Web Applications
Research Papers
Julien Leveau LaBRI, Xavier Blanc LaBRI, Laurent Réveillère LaBRI, Jean-Rémy Falleri Bordeaux INP, Romain Rouvoy Univ. Lille / Inria / IUF
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11:15
30m
Talk
Dependency-Aware Web Test Generation
Research Papers
Matteo Biagiola Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Andrea Stocco Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Filippo Ricca Università di Genova, Paolo Tonella Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI)
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11:45
30m
Talk
Metamorphic Security Testing for Web Systems
Research Papers
Phu X. Mai University of Luxembourg, Fabrizio Pastore University of Luxembourg, Arda Goknil SnT, University of Luxembourg, Lionel Briand University of Luxembourg, University of Ottawa
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21:45 - 23:15
RT6 - Web TestingResearch Papers at Infante
Chair(s): Fabiano Ferrari Federal University of São Carlos
21:45
30m
Talk
Fostering the Diversity of Exploratory Testing in Web Applications
Research Papers
Julien Leveau LaBRI, Xavier Blanc LaBRI, Laurent Réveillère LaBRI, Jean-Rémy Falleri Bordeaux INP, Romain Rouvoy Univ. Lille / Inria / IUF
Link to publication DOI
22:15
30m
Talk
Dependency-Aware Web Test Generation
Research Papers
Matteo Biagiola Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Andrea Stocco Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Filippo Ricca Università di Genova, Paolo Tonella Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI)
Link to publication DOI
22:45
30m
Talk
Metamorphic Security Testing for Web Systems
Research Papers
Phu X. Mai University of Luxembourg, Fabrizio Pastore University of Luxembourg, Arda Goknil SnT, University of Luxembourg, Lionel Briand University of Luxembourg, University of Ottawa
Link to publication DOI