Reference : Can we automate away the main challenges of end-to-end testing?

	Document type :	Scientific congresses, symposiums and conference proceedings : Unpublished conference
	Discipline(s) :	Engineering, computing & technology : Computer science
	Focus Areas :	Security, Reliability and Trust
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/38245

Title :	Can we automate away the main challenges of end-to-end testing?
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Rwemalika, Renaud [University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > >]
	Kintis, Marinos [University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > >]
	Papadakis, Mike [University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC) >]
	Le Traon, Yves [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC) >]
Publication date :	11-Dec-2018
Number of pages :	5
Peer reviewed :	Yes
Audience :	International
Event name :	The 17th Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop
Event date :	from 10-12-2018 to 11-12-2018
Event organizer :	TU Delft Software Engineering Research Group (SERG)
Event place (city) :	Delft
Event country :	Netherlands
Keywords :	[en] end-to-end testing ; keyword-driven testing ; automatic test repair ; automatic test generation
Abstract :	[en] Agile methodologies enable companies to drastically increase software release pace and reduce time-to-market. In a rapidly changing environment, testing becomes a cornerstone of the software development process, guarding the system code base from the insertion of faults. To cater for this, many companies are migrating manual end-to-end tests to automated ones. This migration introduces several challenges to the practitioners. These challenges relate to difficulties in the creation of the automated tests, their maintenance and the evolution of the test code base. In this position paper, we discuss our preliminary results on such challenges and present two potential solutions to these problems, focusing on keyword-driven end-to-end tests. Our solutions leverage existing software artifacts, namely the test suite and an automatically-created model of the system under test, to support the evolution of keyword-driven test suites.
Research centres :	Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > Security Design and Validation Research Group (SerVal)
Funders :	Fonds National de la Recherche - FnR
Name of the research project :	Automatic generation and maintenance of functional tests in an agile environment
Target :	Researchers
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/38245

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