From daikon to agitator: lessons and challenges in building a commercial tool for developer testing
From daikon to agitator: lessons and challenges in building a commercial tool for developer testing
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从 daikon 到 agitator：构建用于开发人员测试的商业工具的经验教训和挑战
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10.1145/1146238.1146258
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2006
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A. Savoia
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Marat Boshernitsan;Roong;A. Savoia
开发人员测试是提高软件质量，降低成本并加速开发的最有效策略之一。尽管有广泛认可的好处，但开发人员测试仅由少数开发人员实践。开发人员测试的缓慢采用主要是由于缺乏使这种实践中一些更繁琐和耗时的方面自动化的工具。受到解决方案的需要，并受到软件测试自动化研究的帮助和启发，我们创建了一个基于软件搅动的开发人员测试工具。软件搅拌是一种测试技术，结合了测试输入生成和动态不变检测的研究结果。我们在称为搅拌器的商业测试工具中实施了软件搅拌。本文对软件搅动及其在搅拌器中的实施进行了高级概述，重点介绍了利用和将研究结果应用于商业产品的实施的经验教训和挑战。
Developer testing is of one of the most effective strategies for improving the quality of software, reducing its cost, and accelerating its development. Despite its widely recognized benefits, developer testing is practiced by only a minority of developers. The slow adoption of developer testing is primarily due to the lack of tools that automate some of the more tedious and time-consuming aspects of this practice. Motivated by the need for a solution, and helped and inspired by the research in software test automation, we created a developer testing tool based on software agitation. Software agitation is a testing technique that combines the results of research in test-input generation and dynamic invariant detection. We implemented software agitation in a commercial testing tool called Agitator. This paper gives a high-level overview of software agitation and its implementation in Agitator, focusing on the lessons and challenges of leveraging and applying the results of research to the implementation of a commercial product.