ICST 2023
Sun 16 - Thu 20 April 2023 Dublin, Ireland
Mon 17 Apr 2023 16:00 - 16:20 at Pearse suite - Session 6: GUI/API testing Chair(s): Phil McMinn

Smartphone vendors apply both device and brand-specific customisations to the underlying operating systems, resulting in a wide range of device configurations. It is crucial that all of the device variations provide compatibility with the default version of the underlying operating system, such as Android. To ensure that widely and commonly used apps run on each of these device variations without any problem, vendors depend on automated GUI level testing of widely and commonly used apps: the failure of a GUI test script that emulates a routine usage of these apps would raise an alarm that a recent change made to a specific device variation may have caused a regression fault. These GUI level compatibility smoke tests are unique in the sense that they are GUI level automated test scripts that are written outside the software development life cycle of the target apps: they are written and maintained by the engineers of the smartphone vendors, and not the app developers. As such, these test scripts are extra vulnerable to the fragility of GUI test scripts, which are already known to be fragile when maintained by app developers. This paper introduces a repair technique for View Identification Failures (VIFs) in those smoke tests so that the smartphone vendors can quickly update their GUI test scripts when they break due to changed view ids. Our technique matches view ids between old and new versions of the target app based on various similarity metrics such as the semantic embedding similarity between ids and GUI labels, and layout similarity based on node embeddings of the GUI layout tree. We evaluate the proposed technique using 512 VIFs collected from real-world Android mobile apps. The proposed technique can repair 72 % of the 512 studied VIFs with only one attempt, compared to 28 % repaired using lexical distance-based matching.

Mon 17 Apr

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16:00 - 18:00
Session 6: GUI/API testingTesting Tools / Previous Editions / Research Papers / Posters at Pearse suite
Chair(s): Phil McMinn University of Sheffield
16:00
20m
Talk
Repairing Fragile GUI Test Cases Using Word and Layout Embedding
Previous Editions
Juyeon Yoon Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seungjun Chung , Kihyuck Shin Samsung Electronics, Jinhan Kim KAIST, Shin Hong Handong Global University, Shin Yoo KAIST
DOI
16:20
20m
Talk
RIDA: Cross-App Record and Replay for Android
Research Papers
Jiayuan Liang Southern University of Science and Technology, Sinan Wang Southern University of Science and Technology, Xiangbo Deng Southern University of Science and Technology, Yepang Liu Southern University of Science and Technology
16:40
20m
Talk
EMB: A Curated Corpus of Web/Enterprise Applications And Library Support for Software Testing Research
Testing Tools
Andrea Arcuri Kristiania University College and Oslo Metropolitan University, Man Zhang Kristiania University College, Norway, Amid Golmohammadi Kristiania University College, Asma Belhadi Kristiania University College, Juan Pablo Galeotti University of Buenos Aires, Bogdan Marculescu Kristiania University College, Norway, Susruthan Seran Kristiania University College
17:00
20m
Talk
LatteArt: A Platform for Recording and Analyzing Exploratory Testing
Testing Tools
Hiroyuki Kirinuki NTT, Masaki Tajima NTT Software Innovation Center, Haruto Tanno NTT
17:20
20m
Talk
POWER: Program Option-Aware Fuzzer for High Bug Detection Ability
Previous Editions
Ahcheong Lee KAIST, Irfan Ariq , Yunho Kim Hanyang University, Moonzoo Kim KAIST / VPlusLab Inc.
DOI
17:40
5m
Talk
Poster: Link between Bias, Node Sensitivity and Long-Tail Distribution in trained DNNs
Posters
Mahum Naseer Technische Universität Wien, Muhammad Shafique New York University Abu Dhabi