Test Generation and Coverage for Database Applications

提案编号：0541087 PI：Phyllis Gail Frankl纽约理工大学标题：数据库应用程序的测试生成和覆盖数据库应用程序在我们的信息社会中扮演着核心角色。考虑到这些系统的普遍性和在许多情况下的关键性，测试它们是否正确运行非常重要。直到最近，很少有研究关注如何有效地做到这一点。本研究计划旨在加强及评估一套测试数据库应用程序的技术。测试此类系统的挑战包括必须考虑大量的数据库状态，以及需要检查应用程序是否正确修改了数据库状态。这项研究建立在以前的工作，其中开发的工具来生成适合测试的数据库状态，生成输入到应用程序，并检查这些输入上执行应用程序的结果。第一阶段的研究重点是改进输入生成技术，进一步自动化的应用程序代码的分析，并开发新的测试数据充分性的措施。第二阶段的重点是经验评估如何有效地检测这些技术在数据库应用程序中的故障。

Proposal number: 0541087PI: Phyllis Gail FranklPolytechnic University of New YorkTITLE: Test Generation and Coverage for Database ApplicationsDatabase application programs play a central role in our information based society. Given the ubiquitous and, in many cases, critical nature of these systems, testing whether they behave correctly is of great importance. Until recently, there has been little research focused on how to do this effectively. This research project aims to enhance and evaluate a set of testing techniques for database applications.Challenges in testing such systems include the large number of database states that must be considered and the need to check whether applications modify the database state correctly. This research builds on previous work, in which tools were developed to generate database states suitable for testing, generate inputs to the application, and check the results of executing the application on those inputs. The first phase of the research focuses on improving the input generation technique, further automating analysis of the application code, and developing new measures of test data adequacy. The second phase focuses on empirical evaluation of how effectively these techniques detect faults in database applications.