eprintid: 1433998 rev_number: 54 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/43/39/98 datestamp: 2014-07-22 16:07:14 lastmod: 2021-12-14 23:26:53 status_changed: 2014-07-22 16:07:14 type: proceedings_section metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Dan, H creators_name: Harman, M creators_name: Krinke, J creators_name: Li, L creators_name: Marginean, A creators_name: Wu, F title: Pidgin Crasher: Searching for Minimised Crashing GUI Event Sequences ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F48 note: The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09940-8_21” abstract: We present a search based testing system that automatically explores the space of all possible GUI event interleavings. Search guides our system to novel crashing sequences using Levenshtein distance and minimises the resulting fault-revealing UI sequences in a post-processing hill climb. We report on the application of our system to the SSBSE 2014 challenge program, Pidgin. Overall, our Pidgin Crasher found 20 different events that caused 2 distinct kinds of bugs, while the event sequences that caused them were reduced by 84% on average using our minimisation post processor. date: 2014 publisher: Springer International official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09940-8_21 vfaculties: VENG oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_source: Manually entered elements_id: 960781 doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-09940-8_21 isbn_13: 9783319099392 language_elements: EN lyricists_name: Dan, Haitao lyricists_name: Harman, Mark lyricists_name: Jia, Yue lyricists_name: Krinke, Jens lyricists_name: Li, Lingbo lyricists_name: Wu, Fan lyricists_id: HDANX02 lyricists_id: MHARM36 lyricists_id: YJIAX90 lyricists_id: JKRIN96 lyricists_id: LIHXX71 lyricists_id: WUCXX05 full_text_status: public series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume: 8636 place_of_pub: Switzerland pagerange: 253-258 event_title: 6th International Symposium, SSBSE 2014, Fortaleza, Brazil, August 26-29, 2014. book_title: Search-Based Software Engineering: Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering citation: Dan, H; Harman, M; Krinke, J; Li, L; Marginean, A; Wu, F; (2014) Pidgin Crasher: Searching for Minimised Crashing GUI Event Sequences. In: Search-Based Software Engineering: Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering. (pp. pp. 253-258). Springer International: Switzerland. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1433998/2/pidgincrusher14.pdf