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 Jul Times are displayed in time zone: Beijing, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Urumqi change
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16:10 - 16:20 Talk | VFQL: Combinational Static Analysis as Query Language Tool Demonstration | ||
16:20 - 16:30 Talk | VBSAC: A Value-Based Static Analyzer for C Tool Demonstration Li ChiTsinghua University, Min ZhouTsinghua University, Zuxing GuSchool of Software, Tsinghua University, Guang Chen, Yuexing Wang, Jiecheng WuTsinghua University, Ming GuTsinghua University | ||
16:30 - 16:40 Talk | SAFEVM: A Safety Verifier for Ethereum Smart Contracts Tool Demonstration | ||
16:40 - 16:50 Talk | CoCoTest: Collaborative Crowdsourced Testing for Android Applications Tool Demonstration | ||
16:50 - 17:00 Talk | Androlic: An Extensible Flow, Context, Object, Field, and Path-Sensitive Static Analysis Framework for Android Tool Demonstration Linjie PanInstitute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Baoquan Cui, Jiwei YanInstitute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xutong Ma, Jun YanInstitute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jian ZhangBeihang University | ||
17:00 - 17:10 Talk | JQF: Coverage-guided Property-based Testing in Java Tool Demonstration Rohan PadhyeUniversity of California, Berkeley, Caroline LemieuxUniversity of California, Berkeley, Koushik SenUniversity of California, Berkeley | ||
17:10 - 17:20 Talk | Ukwikora: Continuous inspection for Keyword-Driven Testing Tool Demonstration Renaud Rwemalika, Marinos Kintis, Mike PapadakisUniversity of Luxembourg, Yves Le TraonUniversity of Luxembourg, Pierre Lorrach | ||
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