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ICSE 2020
Wed 24 June - Thu 16 July 2020
Wed 15 Jul 2020 14:20 - 14:30 at AST - Live Session 2 Chair(s): Fevzi Belli

Microservice-based applications consist of multiple services that can evolve independently. When services are modified, they are typically tested before being deployed. However, the test suites that are executed are usually designed without the exact knowledge about how the services will be accessed and used in the field, therefore they may easily miss relevant test scenarios, failing to prevent the deployment of faulty services. To address this problem, we introduce ExVivoMicroTest, an approach that analyzes the execution of deployed services at runtime in the field, in order to generate test cases for future versions of the same services. ExVivoMicroTest exploits cloud technologies, containers in particular, to generate a mocked environment that fully isolates the service under test from the rest of the system. It then reproduces service interactions as previously analyzed, thus testing the new version of the service against usage scenarios that capture the field usages of its earlier versions. We evaluate our approach on an open sourced microservices application and show that ExVivoMicroTest can effectively reveal faults based on automatically collected data.

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Wed 15 Jul

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14:00 - 15:00
Live Session 2 AST at AST
Chair(s): Fevzi Belli Paderborn University, Germany
14:00
10m
Research paper
Exploratory Datamorphic Testing of Classification Applications
AST
Hong Zhu Oxford Brookes University , Ian Bayley Oxford Brookes University
14:10
10m
Research paper
Algorithm or Representation? An Empirical Study on How SAPIENZ Achieves Coverage
AST
Iván Arcuschin Moreno University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Juan Pablo Galeotti University of Buenos Aires, Diego Garbervetsky University of Buenos Aires and CONICET, Argentina
Pre-print
14:20
10m
Research paper
Automatic Ex-Vivo Regression Testing of Microservices
AST
Luca Gazzola Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Maayan Goldstein Nokia Bell Labs, Israel, Leonardo Mariani University of Milano Bicocca, Itai Segall Nokia Bell-Labs, Luca Ussi University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
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14:30
10m
Research paper
Validating Test Case Migration via Mutation Analysis
AST
Ivan Jovanovikj Paderborn University, Enes Yigitbas University of Paderborn, Germany, Achyuth Nagaraj Paderborn University, Stefan Sauer Paderborn University, Gregor Engels Paderborn University
Pre-print
14:40
10m
Short-paper
Automated Analysis of Flakiness-mitigating Delays
AST
Jean Malm Malardalen University, Adnan Causevic Mälardalen University, Bjorn Lisper Malardalen University, Sigrid Eldh Ericsson, Sweden
14:50
10m
Short-paper
The Power of String Solving: Simplicity of Comparison
AST
Mitja Kulczynski Kiel University, Florin Manea University of Göttingen, Dirk Nowotka Kiel University, Danny Bøgsted Poulsen Aalborg University