Integrating Mutation Techniques to Keep Specification and Source Code in Sync
Most software development processes rely on testing for assuring that a software’s source code is kept in sync with its specification during software evolution. In testing, the degree of conformance between source code and specification is measured by the test success rate. However, the practical value of this metric depends on the quality of the test suite, i.e., its completeness wrt. the specification and source code. Mutation testing has proved to be effective in assessing test suite completeness; however related work either considers mutating the source code or the specification.
Our research will investigate how approaches based on mutating code and specification can be integrated to keep both in sync during software evolution. We aim to contribute (1) a concise method to measuring the degree of conformance between specification and code with each modification, (2) a technique for the identification and visualization of fine-granular trace links between them, and (3) an approach for suggesting updates of specification and code based on detected deviations between them.
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10:30 - 12:00 | |||
10:30 15mTalk | Soft Verification for Actor Contract Systems Doctoral Symposium S: Bram Vandenbogaerde Vrije Universiteit Brussel, P: Andreas Zeller CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, P: Stefan Brunthaler μCSRL, CODE Research Institute, University of the Bundeswehr Munich | ||
10:45 10mTalk | Integrating Mutation Techniques to Keep Specification and Source Code in Sync Doctoral Symposium S: Kerstin Jacob University of Bamberg, P: Andreas Zeller CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, P: Stefan Brunthaler μCSRL, CODE Research Institute, University of the Bundeswehr Munich | ||
10:55 10mTalk | Leveraging Natural Language Processing and Data Mining to Augment and Validate APIs Doctoral Symposium S: Alix Decrop University of Namur, P: Andreas Zeller CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, P: Stefan Brunthaler μCSRL, CODE Research Institute, University of the Bundeswehr Munich | ||
11:05 15mTalk | From Fault Injection to Formal Verification: A Holistic Approach to Fault Diagnosis in Cyber-Physical Systems Doctoral Symposium S: Drishti Yadav Technische Universität Wien, P: Andreas Zeller CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, P: Stefan Brunthaler μCSRL, CODE Research Institute, University of the Bundeswehr Munich | ||
11:20 15mTalk | Robustness against the C/C++11 memory model Doctoral Symposium S: Roy Margalit Tel Aviv University, Israel, P: Andreas Zeller CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, P: Stefan Brunthaler μCSRL, CODE Research Institute, University of the Bundeswehr Munich | ||
11:35 10mTalk | Automated Testing of Networked Systems Reliability Doctoral Symposium S: Michal Rozsíval Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, P: Andreas Zeller CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, P: Stefan Brunthaler μCSRL, CODE Research Institute, University of the Bundeswehr Munich | ||
11:45 10mTalk | Search-Based Translations for Tensor Operations Doctoral Symposium Link to publication | ||