Automated detection of test fixture strategies and smells

Paper accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, IEEE Computer Society, 18-22 March 2013, ISBN 978-1-4673-5961-0, doi: 10.1109/ICST.2013.45 Designing automated tests is a challenging task. One important concern is how to design test fixtures, i.e. code that...

Measuring Test Case Similarity to Support Test Suite Understanding

Preprint of paper published in: TOOLS 2012 - Proceedings of the 50th International Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, May 29-31, 2012; doi:10.1007/978-3-642-30561-0_8 In order to support test suite understanding, we investigate whether we can automatically derive relations between test cases. In particular, we search for trace-based...

Test Confessions: A Study of Testing Practices for Plug-in Systems

Testing plug-in-based systems is challenging due to complex interactions among many different plug-ins, and variations in version and configuration. The objective of this paper is to increase our understanding of what testers and developers think and do when it comes to testing plug-inbased systems. To that end, we conduct a qualitative ...

Understanding Plug-in Test Suites from an Extensibility Perspective

Plug-in architectures enable developers to build extensible software products. Such products are assembled from plug-ins, and their functionality can be enriched by adding or configuring plug-ins. The plug-ins themselves consist also of multiple plug-ins, and offer dedicated points through which their functionality can be influenced. A well...

Online testing of service-oriented architectures to detect state-based faults

Service-oriented architectures have found their way into industry to enable better business-to-business cooperations. With this software architecture new challenges for software development and testing appeared. In this proposal we discuss the problem of testing these complex, and distributed systems in dedicated test environments. We argue that...