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A Fitness Function To Find Feasible Sequences Of Method Calls For Evolutionary Testing Of Object-Oriented Programs, Myoung Yee Kim, Yoonsik Cheon
A Fitness Function To Find Feasible Sequences Of Method Calls For Evolutionary Testing Of Object-Oriented Programs, Myoung Yee Kim, Yoonsik Cheon
Departmental Technical Reports (CS)
In evolutionary testing of an object-oriented program, the search objective is to find a sequence of method calls that can successfully produce a test object of an interesting state. This is challenging because not all call sequences are feasible; each call of a sequence has to meet the assumption of the called method. The effectiveness of an evolutionary testing thus depends in part on the quality of the so-called fitness function that determines the degree of the fitness of a candidate solution. In this paper, we propose a new fitness function based on assertions such as method preconditions to find …
A Quick Tutorial On Jet, Yoonsik Cheon
A Quick Tutorial On Jet, Yoonsik Cheon
Departmental Technical Reports (CS)
JET is an automated unit testing tool for Java classes annotated with JML specifications; JML is a formal interface specification language for Java to document the behavior of Java classes and interfaces. JET tests each method of the class under test separately. For each method, it generates a collection of test data, executes them, and decides test results (i.e., pass/fail) by using JML specifications as test oracles, thereby fully automating unit testing of Java classes. This document gives a quick tutorial introduction to JET.
Abstraction In Assertion-Based Test Oracles, Yoonsik Cheon
Abstraction In Assertion-Based Test Oracles, Yoonsik Cheon
Departmental Technical Reports (CS)
Assertions can be used as test oracles. However, writing effective assertions of right abstraction levels is difficult because on the one hand, detailed assertions are preferred for through testing (i.e., to detect as many errors as possible), but on the other hand abstract assertions are preferred for readability, maintainability, and reusability. As assertions become a practical tool for testing and debugging programs, this is an important and practical problem to solve for the effective use of assertions. We advocate the use of model variables---specification-only variables of which abstract values are given as mappings from concrete program states---to write abstract assertions …