Tapir: Automation Support of Exploratory Testing Using Model Reconstruction of the System Under Test

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8306153/" target="_blank" >https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8306153/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TR.2018.2799957" target="_blank" >10.1109/TR.2018.2799957</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Tapir: Automation Support of Exploratory Testing Using Model Reconstruction of the System Under Test

Original language description

For a considerable number of software projects, the creation of effective test cases is hindered by design documentation that is either lacking, incomplete or obsolete. The exploratory testing approach can serve as a sound method in such situations. However, the efficiency of this testing approach strongly depends on the method, the documentation of explored parts of a system, the organization and distribution of work among individual testers on a team, and the minimization of potential (very probable) duplicities in performed tests. In this paper, we present a framework for replacing and automating a portion of these tasks. A screen-flow-based model of the tested system is incrementally reconstructed during the exploratory testing process by tracking testers’ activities. With additional metadata, the model serves for an automated navigation process for a tester. Compared with the exploratory testing approach, which is manually performed in two case studies, the proposed framework allows the testers to explore a greater extent of the tested system and enables greater detection of the defects present in the system. The results show that the time efficiency of the testing process improved with framework support. This efficiency can be increased by team-based navigational strategies that are implemented within the proposed framework, which is documented by another case study presented in this paper.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

ISSN

0018-9529

e-ISSN

1558-1721

Volume of the periodical

67

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

557-580

UT code for WoS article

000433911000011

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85042848337