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ICST 2020
Sat 24 - Wed 28 October 2020 Porto, Portugal
Mon 26 Oct 2020 14:45 - 15:15 at Infante - RT7 - Optimizing Testing Chair(s): Fabiano Ferrari
Tue 27 Oct 2020 01:45 - 02:15 at Infante - RT7 - Optimizing Testing Chair(s): Corina S. Pasareanu

Since relational databases support many software applications, industry professionals recommend testing both database queries and the underlying database schema that contains complex integrity constraints. These constraints, which include primary and foreign keys, NOT NULL, and arbitrary CHECK constraints, are important because they protect the consistency and coherency of data in the relational database. Since testing integrity constraints is potentially an arduous task, human testers can use new tools to automatically generate test suites that effectively find schema faults. However, these tool-generated test suites often contain many lengthy tests that may both increase the time overhead of regression testing and limit the ability of human testers to understand them. Aiming to reduce the size of automatically generated test suites for database schemas, this paper introduces STICCER, a technique that finds overlaps between test cases, merging database interactions from similar tests and removing others. By systematically discarding and merging redundant tests, STICCER creates a reduced test suite that is guaranteed to have the same coverage as the original one. Using thirty-four relational database schemas, we experimentally compared STICCER to two greedy test suite reduction techniques and a random method. The results show that, compared to the greedy and random methods, STICCER is the most effective at reducing the number of test cases and database interactions while maintaining test effectiveness as measured by the mutation score.

Mon 26 Oct

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13:45 - 15:15
RT7 - Optimizing TestingResearch Papers at Infante +11h
Chair(s): Fabiano Ferrari Federal University of São Carlos
13:45
30m
Talk
Optimizing Mutation Testing by Discovering Dynamic Mutant Subsumption Relations
Research Papers
Marcio Augusto Guimarães Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), Leo Fernandes Federal Institute of Alagoas (IFAL), Márcio Ribeiro Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil, Marcelo d'Amorim Federal University of Pernambuco, Rohit Gheyi Federal University of Campina Grande
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14:15
30m
Talk
Massively Parallel, Highly Efficient, but What About the Test Suite Quality? Applying Mutation Testing to GPU Programs
Research Papers
Qianqian Zhu TU Delft, Andy Zaidman Delft University of Technology
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14:45
30m
Talk
STICCER: Fast and Effective Database Test Suite Reduction Through Merging of Similar Test Cases
Research Papers
Abdullah Alsharif The University of Sheffield, Gregory Kapfhammer Allegheny College, USA, Phil McMinn University of Sheffield
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Tue 27 Oct

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00:45 - 02:15
RT7 - Optimizing TestingResearch Papers at Infante
Chair(s): Corina S. Pasareanu Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley, NASA Ames Research Center
00:45
30m
Talk
Optimizing Mutation Testing by Discovering Dynamic Mutant Subsumption Relations
Research Papers
Marcio Augusto Guimarães Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), Leo Fernandes Federal Institute of Alagoas (IFAL), Márcio Ribeiro Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil, Marcelo d'Amorim Federal University of Pernambuco, Rohit Gheyi Federal University of Campina Grande
Link to publication DOI
01:15
30m
Talk
Massively Parallel, Highly Efficient, but What About the Test Suite Quality? Applying Mutation Testing to GPU Programs
Research Papers
Qianqian Zhu TU Delft, Andy Zaidman Delft University of Technology
Link to publication DOI Pre-print
01:45
30m
Talk
STICCER: Fast and Effective Database Test Suite Reduction Through Merging of Similar Test Cases
Research Papers
Abdullah Alsharif The University of Sheffield, Gregory Kapfhammer Allegheny College, USA, Phil McMinn University of Sheffield
Link to publication DOI