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AUTOMOCK: Automated Synthesis of a Mock Environment for Test Case Generation

Authors: Nadia Alshahwan, Yue Jia, Kiran Lakhotia, Gordon Fraser, David Shuler, and Paolo Tonella

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 10111, Practical Software Testing : Tool Automation and Human Factors (2010)

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During testing, there are several reasons to exclude some of the components used by the unit under test, such as: (1) the component affects the state of the world in an irreversible way; (2) the component is not accessible for testing purposes (e.g., a web service); (3) the component introduces a major performance degradation to the testing phase (e.g., due to long computations); (4) it is hard (i.e., statistically unlikely) to obtain the output required by the test from the component. In such cases, we replace the component with a mock one. In this paper, we integrate the synthesis of mock components with the generation of test cases for the current testing goal (e.g., coverage). To avoid the generation of meaningless data, which may lead to assertion violation not related to bugs, we include a weak mock postcondition. We consider ways to automatically synthesize such postcondition. We empirically evaluate the quality of the mocks generated by our approach, as well as the benefits mocks introduce in terms of improved coverage and improved performance of the test case generator.

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Nadia Alshahwan, Yue Jia, Kiran Lakhotia, Gordon Fraser, David Shuler, and Paolo Tonella. AUTOMOCK: Automated Synthesis of a Mock Environment for Test Case Generation. In Practical Software Testing : Tool Automation and Human Factors. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 10111, pp. 1-4, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)

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@InProceedings{alshahwan_et_al:DagSemProc.10111.3,
  author =	{Alshahwan, Nadia and Jia, Yue and Lakhotia, Kiran and Fraser, Gordon and Shuler, David and Tonella, Paolo},
  title =	{{AUTOMOCK: Automated Synthesis of a Mock Environment for Test Case Generation}},
  booktitle =	{Practical Software Testing : Tool Automation and Human Factors},
  pages =	{1--4},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{10111},
  editor =	{Mark Harman and Henry Muccini and Wolfram Schulte and Tao Xie},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.10111.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-26180},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.10111.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: Test case generation, code analysis, automated software testing}
}

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