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ASE 2019
Sun 10 - Fri 15 November 2019 San Diego, California, United States
Tue 12 Nov 2019 14:00 - 14:20 at Cortez 1 - Testing and Verification Chair(s): Weihang Wang

Automated testing techniques are often assessed on coverage based metrics. However, despite giving good coverage, the test cases may miss the gap between functional specification and the code implementation. This gap may be subtle in nature, arising due to the absence of logical checks, either in the implementation or in the specification, resulting in inconsistencies in the input definition. The inconsistencies may be prevalent especially for structured inputs, commonly specified using string-based data types. Our study on defects reported over popular libraries reveals that such gaps may not be limited to input validation checks. We propose a test generation technique for structured string inputs where we infer inconsistencies in input definition to expose semantic gaps in the method under test and the method specification. We assess this technique using our tool SEGATE, Semantic Gap Tester. SEGATE uses static analysis and automaton modeling to infer the gap and generate test cases. On our benchmark dataset, comprising of defects reported in 15 popular open-source libraries, written in Java, SEGATE was able to generate tests to expose 80% of the defects.

Tue 12 Nov

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13:40 - 15:20
Testing and VerificationResearch Papers / Demonstrations / Industry Showcase at Cortez 1
Chair(s): Weihang Wang University at Buffalo, SUNY
13:40
20m
Talk
Systematically Covering Input Structure
Research Papers
Nikolas Havrikov CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Andreas Zeller CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Pre-print
14:00
20m
Talk
SEGATE: Unveiling Semantic Inconsistencies between Code and Specification of String Inputs
Research Papers
Devika Sondhi IIIT Delhi, Rahul Purandare IIIT-Delhi
Pre-print
14:20
20m
Talk
Detecting Error-Handling Bugs without Error Specification Input
Research Papers
Zhouyang Jia National University of Defense Technology, Shanshan Li National University of Defense Technology, Tingting Yu University of Kentucky, Liao Xiangke National University of Defense Technology, China, Ji Wang National University of Defense Technology, Xiaodong Liu National University of Defense Technology, Yunhuai Liu Peking University
14:40
20m
Talk
Test Automation and its Limitations
Industry Showcase
Ahyoung Sung Samsung Electronics, Yangsu Kim Samsung Electronics, Sangjun Kim Samsung Electronics, Jongin Kim Samsung Electronics, Neo Jang Samsung Electronics
15:00
10m
Talk
Grading-Based Test Suite Augmentation
Research Papers
Jonathan Osei-Owusu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Angello Astorga University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Liia Butler University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Tao Xie Peking University, Geoffrey Challen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
15:10
10m
Demonstration
MutAPK: Source-Codeless Mutant Generation for Android Apps
Demonstrations
Camilo Escobar-Velásquez Universidad de los Andes, Michael Osorio-Riaño Universidad de los Andes, Mario Linares-Vásquez Systems and Computing Engineering Department , Universidad de los Andes , Bogotá, Colombia