Language-Based Software Testing.

The article explores the potential for language-based testing bots to conduct software testing. First, the authors detail the requirements of a software testing bot including input generation as well as output evaluation. Then, an investigation of the incorporation of grammars with constraints in or...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 67; no. 4; pp. 80 - 85
Autores principales: Steinhöfel, Dominic, Zeller, Andreas
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Apr2024
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Sumario:The article explores the potential for language-based testing bots to conduct software testing. First, the authors detail the requirements of a software testing bot including input generation as well as output evaluation. Then, an investigation of the incorporation of grammars with constraints in order to satisfy both syntax and semantics of inputs and outputs are presented utilizing the authors' open source tool ILSa (Input Specification Language).