NDLI: Help, help, i'm being suppressed! The significance of suppressors in software testing

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Author	Groce, A. Chaoqiang Zhang Alipour, M.A. Eide, E. Yang Chen Regehr, J.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, USA (Groce, A.; Chaoqiang Zhang; Alipour, M.A.) \|\| Sch. of Comput., Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA (Eide, E.; Yang Chen; Regehr, J.)
Abstract	Test features are basic compositional units used to describe what a test does (and does not) involve. For example, in API-based testing, the most obvious features are function calls; in grammar-based testing, the obvious features are the elements of the grammar. The relationship between features as abstractions of tests and produced behaviors of the tested program is surprisingly poorly understood. This paper shows how large-scale random testing modified to use diverse feature sets can uncover causal relationships between what a test contains and what the program being tested does. We introduce a general notion of observable behaviors as targets, where a target can be a detected fault, an executed branch or statement, or a complex coverage entity such as a state, predicate-valuation, or program path. While it is obvious that targets have triggers - features without which they cannot be hit by a test - the notion of suppressors - features which make a test less likely to hit a target - has received little attention despite having important implications for automated test generation and program understanding. For a set of subjects including C compilers, a flash file system, and JavaScript engines, we show that suppression is both common and important.
Starting Page	390
Ending Page	399
File Size	324613
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479923663
DOI	10.1109/ISSRE.2013.6698892
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-11-04
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Testing HTML Computer crashes Sociology Statistics Containers Grammar
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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