Abstract

Finding and documenting bugs in software systems is an essential component of the software development process. A bug is defined as a series of steps that produces behavior which differs from the software specification and requirements. Finding steps to produce such behavior requires expert knowledge of the possible operations of the software in development as well as intuition and creativity. This thesis proposes the Directed Action Node Input Execution Language (DANIEL), a language that represents test cases as directed graphs, where each node represents an action, and possible input arguments for each action are represented along the incoming directed edges. With this representation, it is possible to form a union of all recorded test cases, making a combined directed graph which represents all of the paths of interaction with the developing software. This thesis demonstrates how DANIEL can generate prioritized test cases for a web form application, while also preserving workflow context. Using a graph built on Selenium test cases, we evaluate a random walk, a weighted walk, and model-weighted walks integrating logistic regression and XGBoost to compute the relevant probabilities. We find that the weighted walk discovers the most bugs while the model-weighted walk provides the most meaningful coverage.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Debugging in computer science--Automation; Computer software--Testing--Automation

Publication Date

3-9-2021

Document Type

Thesis

Student Type

Graduate

Degree Name

Computer Science (MS)

Department, Program, or Center

Computer Science (GCCIS)

Advisor

Alex Ororbia II

Advisor/Committee Member

Carlos Rivero

Advisor/Committee Member

Michael Mior

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

Plan Codes

COMPSCI-MS

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