?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Automated+Generation+of+Context-Aware+Tests&rft.creator=Wang%2C+Z.&rft.creator=Elbaum%2C+S.&rft.creator=Rosenblum%2C+D.S.&rft.description=The+incorporation+of+context-awareness+capabilities+into+pervasive+applications+allows+them+to+leverage+contextual+information+to+provide+additional+services+while+maintaining+an+acceptable+quality+of+service.+These+added+capabilities%2C+however%2C+introduce+a+distinct+input+space+that+can+affect+the+behavior+of+these+applications+at+any+point+during+their+execution%2C+making+their+validation+quite+challenging.+In+this+paper%2C+we+introduce+an+approach+to+improve+the+test+suite+of+a+context-aware+application+by+identifying+context-aware+program+points+where+context+changes+may+affect+the+application's+behavior%2C+and+by+systematically+manipulating+the+context+data+fed+into+the+application+to+increase+its+exposure+to+potentially+valuable+context+variations.+Preliminary+results+indicate+that+the+approach+is+more+powerful+than+existing+testing+approaches+used+on+this+type+of+application.&rft.publisher=IEEE+Computer+Society&rft.date=2007-05&rft.type=Proceedings+paper&rft.language=eng&rft.source=+++++In%3A++Proceedings+of+the+29th+International+Conference+on+Software+Engineering.++(pp.+pp.+406-415).++IEEE+Computer+Society%3A+Minneapolis%2C+USA.+(2007)+++++&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F4317%2F1%2F4317.pdf&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F4317%2F&rft.rights=open