eprintid: 4317
rev_number: 5
eprint_status: archive
userid: 111
dir: disk0/00/00/43/17
datestamp: 2007-08-08 12:00:00
lastmod: 2015-07-18 23:00:05
status_changed: 2008-01-09 13:54:01
type: proceedings_section
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Wang, Z.
creators_name: Elbaum, S.
creators_name: Rosenblum, D.S.
title: Automated Generation of Context-Aware Tests
ispublished: pub
subjects: 8000
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abstract: 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, however, introduce a distinct input space that can affect the behavior of these applications at any point during their execution, making their validation quite challenging. In this paper, 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, 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.
date: 2007-05
date_type: published
publisher: IEEE Computer Society
official_url: http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1248873&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=27744130&CFTOKEN=48712950
oa_status: green
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
doi: 10.1109/ICSE.2007.18
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Minneapolis, USA
pagerange: 406-415
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 0769528287
book_title: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering
citation:        Wang, Z.;    Elbaum, S.;    Rosenblum, D.S.;      (2007)    Automated Generation of Context-Aware Tests.                     In:  Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering.  (pp. pp. 406-415).  IEEE Computer Society: Minneapolis, USA.       Green open access   
 
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