JavaScript Instrumentation for Search-Based Software Testing: A Study with RESTful APIs

JavaScript is one of the most popular programming languages. However, its dynamic nature poses several challenges to automated testing techniques. In this paper, we propose an approach and open-source tool support to enable white-box testing of JavaScript applications using Search-Based Software Tes...

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Published in:2022 IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) pp. 105 - 115
Main Authors: Zhang, Man, Belhadi, Asma, Arcuri, Andrea
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.04.2022
Subjects:
Codes
Computer languages
Instruments
JavaScript Instrumentation
Knowledge engineering
NodeJS
SBST
Software testing
System testing
Web services
white-box test generation
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Summary:JavaScript is one of the most popular programming languages. However, its dynamic nature poses several challenges to automated testing techniques. In this paper, we propose an approach and open-source tool support to enable white-box testing of JavaScript applications using Search-Based Software Testing techniques. We provide an automated approach to collect search-based heuristics like the common Branch Distance. To empirically evaluate our results, we integrated our technique into the EvoMASTER test generation tool, and carried out analyses on the automated system testing of RESTful APIs. Experiments on 5 NodeJS APIs show that our technique leads to significantly better results than existing black-box and grey-box testing tools in terms of code coverage and fault detection.
DOI:10.1109/ICST53961.2022.00022