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Attaboy

Lehrstuhl für Softwaretechnik (Prof. Zeller)
Universität des Saarlandes – Informatik
Informatik Campus des Saarlandes
Campus E9 1 (CISPA)
66123 Saarbrücken
E-mail: zeller @ cs.uni-saarland.de
Telefon: +49 681 302-70970

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Developing test cases for a new application is tedious work—not so much because writing tests in itself is hard, but because so many things that we humans take for granted (say, “log in”) have to be painfully specified in every detail—click here, then enter the ID there, hit the return key, repeat with password, finally click on the big “log in” button. Testers have to repeat these steps for each and every application although the basic steps are always the same. Would it not be easier if we could make use of existing test cases to simplify the development of new ones?

In this paper, we present a technique that is set to considerably reduce the effort for writing and generating tests—by automatically translating and adapting tests written for other applications, such that programmers can directly incorporate them in their test suites.

The technique makes use of the semantic text similarity present in functional similar states to generate test cases for a target application:

Semantic Text Similarity

Downloads

To reproduce our results and maybe improve the test translation you may download
  • The paper
  • web application sample data (i.e. test suite data) here.
  • manually generated Selenium testsuite
    • Please contact us, if you want access the test suite.
    • The end user agreements of the various systems under tests may forbid to be tested, so we limit the access to the test suite for researching purposes
  • configuration data

Unfortunately, the source code is not publicly available and was developed together with Testfabrik. If you are interested in using Attaboy or want more information, please contact Andreas Rau.

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