XMLMate: Evolutionary XML Test Generation

Havrikov, Nikolas and Höschele, Matthias and Galeotti, Juan Pablo and Zeller, Andreas
(2014) XMLMate: Evolutionary XML Test Generation.
In: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering.
Conference: ESEC/FSE European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (formerly listed as ESEC)

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Abstract

Generating system inputs satisfying complex constraints is still a challenge for modern test generators. We present XMLMATE, a search-based test generator specially aimed at XML-based systems. XMLMATE leverages program structure, existing XML schemas, and XML inputs to generate, mutate, recombine, and evolve valid XML inputs. Over a set of seven XML-based systems, XMLMATE detected 31 new unique failures in production code, all triggered by system inputs and thus true alarms.

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