Title |
Specification-Based Unit Testing |
Author
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Garcia, Arcadio Rubio
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Supervisor
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Baumeister, Hubert (Software Engineering, Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modeling, Technical University of Denmark, DTU, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark)
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Institution |
Technical University of Denmark, DTU, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark |
Thesis level |
Master's thesis |
Year |
2009 |
Abstract |
Automated generation of tests from specifications has been recently introduced
in order to address some of the shortcomings of classical automated unit testing.
Test cases are created from properties that a piece of code must satisfy, and
which are given by the programmer. Clearly this leads to much more concise
test code.
However, the aforementioned approach still has a long journey ahead before
being fully ready to replace classical unit testing in most of its applications.
Throughout this MSc Thesis we try to contribute towards the solution of the
two main problems it is facing.
First, test cases are currently generated from properties in a pure random fashion.
We explore different alternatives for creating them in a more intelligent
manner, but still very efficiently, so that the probability of finding bugs becomes
higher in practice.
Second, properties are naturally suited to specify functional code, yet we need
to develop new constructs to be able to apply them to stateful code, such as
object-oriented software. We attempt to offer answers in this direction too.
A prototype demonstrating our ideas for the resolution of both problems has
been built as part of the Thesis. A snapshot of the source code at the time of
writing can be found in the following URL. Further updates, if any, will also be
made available on this site:
http://github.com/arcadio/msc-thesis/downloads |
Series |
IMM-M.Sc.-2009-23 |
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Creation date: 2009-04-15
Update date: 2010-08-25
Source: dtu
ID: 241280
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