CAREER: Cooperative Developer Testing with Test Intentions

职业：具有测试意图的合作开发人员测试

• 批准号: 1434596
• 负责人: Tao Xie
• 金额: $ 36.43万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-07-01 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1434596&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Cooperative; Developer; Testing; Test

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Developer testing has been widely recognized as an important and valuable means of improving software reliability, partly due to its capabilities of exposing faults early in the software development life cycle. However, manual developer testing is often tedious and insufficient. Testing tools can be used to enable economical use of resources by reducing manual effort. To maximize the value of developer testing, effective and efficient support for cooperation between developers and tools is greatly needed and yet lacking in state-of-the-art research and practice. This research aims to create a systematic framework for cooperative developer testing that provides practical techniques and tools, with an integrated research and education plan. In particular, the research addresses fundamental research questions around specification of test intentions by developers to communicate their testing goals or guidance to tools, satisfaction of test intentions by tools, and explanation of intention satisfaction by tools. Test-intention satisfaction and its explanation assist developers in accomplishing not only their testing tasks but also debugging tasks. The framework also helps infer likely test intentions to reduce manual effort in specification of test intentions. Among the broader impacts of the project includes improvement of software reliability and collaboration with industry to transfer technology.

该奖项是根据2009年的《美国回收与再投资法》（Prubly Law 111-5）资助的。开发人员测试已被广泛认为是提高软件可靠性的重要且有价值的手段，部分原因是由于其在软件开发生命周期早期暴露故障的能力。但是，手动开发人员测试通常是乏味和不足的。测试工具可用于通过减少手动努力来经济地利用资源。为了最大程度地提高开发人员测试的价值，非常需要有效，有效地支持开发人员与工具之间的合作，但缺乏最先进的研究和实践。这项研究旨在为合作开发人员测试创建一个系统的框架，该框架通过集成的研究和教育计划提供实用的技术和工具。特别是，该研究涉及开发人员围绕测试意图规范的基本研究问题，以传达其测试目标或指导工具，对工具对测试意图的满意度以及对工具对意图满意的解释。测试意见满意度及其解释不仅可以帮助开发人员完成他们的测试任务，而且还可以调试任务。该框架还有助于推断可能的测试意图，以减少在测试意图规范中的手动努力。该项目的更广泛影响包括改善软件可靠性和与行业转移技术的协作。