CONSTRAINT REASONING IN FOCALTEST

Matthieu Carlier, Catherine Dubois, Arnaud Gotlieb

2010

Abstract

Property-based testing implies selecting test data satisfying coverage criteria on user-specified properties. However, current automatic test data generation techniques adopt direct generate-and-test approaches for this task. In FocalTest, a testing tool designed to generate test data for programs and properties written in the functional language Focal, test data are generated at random and rejected when they do not satisfy selected coverage criteria. In this paper, we improve FocalTest with a test-and-generate approach, through the usage of constraint reasoning. A particular difficulty is the generation of test data satisfying MC/DC on the precondition of a property, when it contains function calls with pattern matching and higher-order functions. Our experimental results show that a non-naive implementation of constraint reasoning on these constructions outperform traditional generation techniques when used to find test data for testing properties.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Carlier M., Dubois C. and Gotlieb A. (2010). CONSTRAINT REASONING IN FOCALTEST . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8425-23-2, pages 82-91. DOI: 10.5220/0003009800820091

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft10,
author={Matthieu Carlier and Catherine Dubois and Arnaud Gotlieb},
title={CONSTRAINT REASONING IN FOCALTEST},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,},
year={2010},
pages={82-91},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003009800820091},
isbn={978-989-8425-23-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,
TI - CONSTRAINT REASONING IN FOCALTEST
SN - 978-989-8425-23-2
AU - Carlier M.
AU - Dubois C.
AU - Gotlieb A.
PY - 2010
SP - 82
EP - 91
DO - 10.5220/0003009800820091