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Automated Random Testing of Numerical Constrained Types

Authors Ghiles Ziat, Matthieu Dien, Vincent Botbol

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Ghiles Ziat
  • ISAE-SUPAERO, Université de Toulouse, France
Matthieu Dien
  • Université de Caen, France
Vincent Botbol
  • Nomadic labs, Paris, France

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This work has been partially supported by the Defense Innovation Agency (AID) of the French Ministry of Defense under Grant No.: 2018.60.0072.00.470.75.01 and the RIN ALENOR project.

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Ghiles Ziat, Matthieu Dien, and Vincent Botbol. Automated Random Testing of Numerical Constrained Types. In 27th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 210, pp. 59:1-59:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2021.59

Abstract

We propose an automated testing framework based on constraint programming techniques. Our framework allows the developer to attach a numerical constraint to a type that restricts its set of possible values. We use this constraint as a partial specification of the program, our goal being to derive property-based tests on such annotated programs. To achieve this, we rely on the user-provided constraints on the types of a program: for each function f present in the program, that returns a constrained type, we generate a test. The tests consists of generating uniformly pseudo-random inputs and checking whether f’s output satisfies the constraint. We are able to automate this process by providing a set of generators for primitive types and generator combinators for composite types. To derive generators for constrained types, we present in this paper a technique that characterizes their inhabitants as the solution set of a numerical CSP. This is done by combining abstract interpretation and constraint solving techniques that allow us to efficiently and uniformly generate solutions of numerical CSP. We validated our approach by implementing it as a syntax extension for the OCaml language.

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  • Software and its engineering → Dynamic analysis
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  • Constraint Programming
  • Automated Random Testing
  • Abstract Domains
  • Constrained Types

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