Ukwikora: Continuous inspection for Keyword-Driven Testing
Automation of acceptance test suites becomes necessary in the context of agile software development practices, which require rapid feedback on the quality of code changes. To this end, companies try to automate their acceptance tests as much as possible. Unfortunately, the growth of the automated test suites, by several automation testers, gives rise to potential test smells, i.e., poorly designed test code, being introduced in the test code base, which in turn may increase the cost of maintaining the code and creating new one. In this paper, we investigate this problem in the context of our industrial partner, BGL BNP Paribas, and introduce Ukwikora, an automated tool that statically analyzes acceptance test suites, enabling the continuous inspection of the test code base. Ukwikora targets code written in the Robot Framework syntax, a popular framework for writing Keyword-Driven tests. Ukwikora has been successfully deployed at BGL BNP Paribas, detecting issues otherwise unknown to the automation testers, such as the presence of duplicated test code, dead test code and dependency issues among the tests. The success of our case study reinforces the need for additional research and tooling for acceptance test suites.
Wed 17 JulDisplayed time zone: Beijing, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Urumqi change
16:00 - 17:30 | |||
16:00 10mTalk | Go-Clone: Graph-Embedding Based Clone Detector for Golang Tool Demonstration Cong Wang Tsinghua University, Jian Gao School of Software, Tsinghua University, Yu Jiang , Zhenchang Xing Australia National University, Huafeng Zhang , Weiliang Ying , Ming Gu Tsinghua University, Jiaguang Sun | ||
16:10 10mTalk | VFQL: Combinational Static Analysis as Query Language Tool Demonstration | ||
16:20 10mTalk | VBSAC: A Value-Based Static Analyzer for C Tool Demonstration Li Chi Tsinghua University, Min Zhou Tsinghua University, Zuxing Gu School of Software, Tsinghua University, Guang Chen , Yuexing Wang , Jiecheng Wu Tsinghua University, Ming Gu Tsinghua University | ||
16:30 10mTalk | SAFEVM: A Safety Verifier for Ethereum Smart Contracts Tool Demonstration | ||
16:40 10mTalk | CoCoTest: Collaborative Crowdsourced Testing for Android Applications Tool Demonstration | ||
16:50 10mTalk | Androlic: An Extensible Flow, Context, Object, Field, and Path-Sensitive Static Analysis Framework for Android Tool Demonstration Linjie Pan Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Baoquan Cui , Jiwei Yan Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xutong Ma , Jun Yan Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jian Zhang Beihang University | ||
17:00 10mTalk | JQF: Coverage-guided Property-based Testing in Java Tool Demonstration Rohan Padhye University of California, Berkeley, Caroline Lemieux University of California, Berkeley, Koushik Sen University of California, Berkeley | ||
17:10 10mTalk | Ukwikora: Continuous inspection for Keyword-Driven Testing Tool Demonstration Renaud Rwemalika , Marinos Kintis , Mike Papadakis University of Luxembourg, Yves Le Traon University of Luxembourg, Pierre Lorrach | ||
17:20 10mTalk | CTRAS: A Tool for Aggregating and Summarizing Crowdsourced Test Reports Tool Demonstration Yuying Li State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Rui Hao Nanjing University, China, Yang Feng University of California, Irvine, James Jones University of California, Irvine, Xiaofang Zhang , Zhenyu Chen Nanjing University |