SHF:Small:Collaborative Research: Test-Centric Architecture Modeling

SHF:Small:协作研究：以测试为中心的架构建模

• 批准号: 2140524
• 负责人: Tingting Yu
• 金额: $ 23.92万
• 依托单位: University of Cincinnati Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2140524&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SHF; Small; Collaborative; Research; Test

Software architecture and software testing are both important areas of research and practice in software engineering. Research in software architectural modeling and analysis has focused on providing general guidance in software design, development, and maintenance. Research in software testing has examined a broad spectrum of endeavors, ranging from development testing to regression testing for maintenance. However, the two areas have long been disjoint from each other. That is, architecture modeling and analysis techniques are largely agnostic to the unique design features of test code, whereas software testing is conducted without leveraging any architectural guidance. This project aims to build a novel architecture-modeling framework to bridge the gap between software architecture and testing. The project will enable the synergy between architecture and test efficiency across the long lifetimes of modern software systems that can provide theoretical advances and practical solutions in both fields. Practitioners will be able to use the output instruments to understand, evaluate, and improve the architecture of a system to benefit software testing and maintenance. Researchers will be able to leverage the techniques, tools, and data created in this project to support a variety of gap-bridging research efforts. Software-engineering educators will be able to rethink and rejuvenate the way that software architecture and software testing topics are taught. To achieve the above vision, the research team will create a family of first-of-its-kind architectural modeling and analysis techniques that centers on testing and amplifies benefits to both software architecture and software testing. More specifically, this modeling and analysis framework includes 1) A test-centric architecture modeling approach to help developers and practitioners understand and evaluate the architectural design of test code, e.g., whether the design is good or bad, easy or difficult to maintain and test; 2) A test-centric architectural-analysis approach to detect and analyze architectural anti-patterns centered around test code that hinder maintenance and increase costs on test code; and 3) An architecture-guided testing approach that provides cost-effective regression-testing techniques, including regression-testing selection and prioritization, built upon the high-level architectural modeling. This project directly contributes to the stated goals of the Computing and Communication Foundations program of addressing problems fundamental to improving software quality and, thus, benefits all segments of society that depend on software.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

软件架构和软件测试都是软件工程研究和实践的重要领域。软件架构建模和分析的研究重点是为软件设计、开发和维护提供一般指导。软件测试研究已经检验了广泛的工作，从开发测试到维护回归测试。然而，这两个领域长期以来相互脱节。也就是说，架构建模和分析技术在很大程度上与测试代码的独特设计特征无关，而软件测试是在不利用任何架构指导的情况下进行的。该项目旨在构建一个新颖的架构建模框架，以弥合软件架构和测试之间的差距。 该项目将在现代软件系统的长生命周期内实现架构和测试效率之间的协同作用，从而为这两个领域提供理论进步和实际解决方案。从业人员将能够使用输出工具来理解、评估和改进系统架构，以有利于软件测试和维护。研究人员将能够利用该项目中创建的技术、工具和数据来支持各种弥合差距的研究工作。软件工程教育工作者将能够重新思考和振兴软件架构和软件测试主题的教学方式。为了实现上述愿景，研究团队将创建一系列首创的架构建模和分析技术，以测试为中心，扩大软件架构和软件测试的优势。更具体地说，该建模和分析框架包括 1）以测试为中心的架构建模方法，帮助开发人员和实践者理解和评估测试代码的架构设计，例如设计是好还是坏，维护和测试是否容易或困难; 2) 以测试为中心的架构分析方法，用于检测和分析以测试代码为中心的架构反模式，这些反模式会阻碍维护并增加测试代码的成本； 3) 架构引导的测试方法，提供经济高效的回归测试技术，包括基于高级架构建模的回归测试选择和优先级排序。该项目直接有助于实现计算和通信基金会计划的既定目标，即解决提高软件质量的根本问题，从而使依赖软件的社会各阶层受益。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为值得支持通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估。

项目成果

An automatic refactoring framework for replacing test-production inheritance by mocking mechanism

一种通过模拟机制替代测试生产继承的自动重构框架

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE
• 作者: Wang, Xiao;Xiao, Lu;Yu, Tingting;Woepse, Anne;Wang, Sunny
• 通讯作者: Wang, Sunny