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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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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 67; no. 4; pp. 80 - 85
Main Authors: Steinhöfel, Dominic, Zeller, Andreas
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Apr2024
Subjects:
Language & languages
Computer software testing
Syntax (Grammar)
Semantics
Automation
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary: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).