Sequence Mining for Automatic Generation of Software Tests from GUI Event Traces

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2020

Authors

Alberto Oliveira (Author) Other; Ricardo Freitas (Author) Other; Alípio Jorge (Author) Other; Vítor Amorim (Author) Other; Nuno Moniz (Author) Other; Ana C. R. Paiva (Author) FEUP; Paulo J. Azevedo (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - IDEAL 2020 - 21st International Conference - Proceedings, Part II

Pages: 516-523

21st International Conference IDEAL 2020. International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning

Guimarães, November 4–6, 2020

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Authenticus ID: P-00S-ZXN

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-62365-4_49

Abstract (EN): In today’s software industry, systems are constantly changing. To maintain their quality and to prevent failures at controlled costs is a challenge. One way to foster quality is through thorough and systematic testing. Therefore, the definition of adequate tests is crucial for saving time, cost and effort. This paper presents a framework that generates software test cases automatically based on user interaction data. We propose a data-driven software test generation solution that combines the use of frequent sequence mining and Markov chain modeling. We assess the quality of the generated test cases by empirically evaluating their coverage with respect to observed user interactions and code. We also measure the plausibility of the distribution of the events in the generated test sets using the Kullback-Leibler divergence. © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8