POGen: a test code generator based on template variable coverage in gray-box integration testing for web applications

Authors:
Kazunori Sakamoto;Kaizu Tomohiro;Daigo Hamura;Hironori Washizaki;Yoshiaki Fukazawa
Affiliations:
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan;Google Japan Inc., Tokyo, Japan;Google Japan Inc., Tokyo, Japan;Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan;Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Venue:
FASE'13 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Web applications are complex; they consist of many subsystems and run on various browsers and platforms. This makes it difficult to conduct adequate integration testing to detect faults in the connections between subsystems or in the specific environments. Therefore, establishing an efficient integration testing method with the proper test adequacy criteria and tools is an important issue. In this paper, we propose a new test coverage called template variable coverage. We also propose a novel technique for generating skeleton test code that includes accessor methods and improves the template variable coverage criterion, using a tool that we developed called POGen. Our experiments show that template variable coverage correlates highly with the capability to detect faults, and that POGen can reduce testing costs.