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Pidgin Crasher: Searching for Minimised Crashing GUI Event Sequences

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

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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.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Pidgin Crasher: Searching for Minimised Crashing GUI Event Sequences
Event: 6th International Symposium, SSBSE 2014, Fortaleza, Brazil, August 26-29, 2014.
ISBN-13: 9783319099392
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09940-8_21
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09940-8_21
Language: English
Additional information: The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09940-8_21”
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1433998
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