Structural Unit Testing as a Service with PathCrawler-online.com

Author

Kosmatov, Nikolai ; Williams, N. ; Botella, Bernard ; Roger, M.

Author_Institution

Software Reliability Lab., CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

fYear

2013

fDate

25-28 March 2013

Firstpage

435

Lastpage

440

Abstract

Path Crawler is a concolic test generation tool for the structural unit testing of C code. This paper describes the PathCrawler-online.com testing service. The user submits C source files and test parameters, and the server generates test-cases and coverage information. The service is mostly used today as a novel alternative to providing a demonstration version for students and potential users to install. However, Path Crawler-online can also be seen as a prototype for Testing as a Service and a first step towards Software Testing in the Cloud. In this spirit, we discuss the issues raised by our two-year experience with Path Crawler-online.

Keywords

C language; cloud computing; program testing; C code; C source file; PathCrawler-online.com testing service; cloud computing; coverage information; software testing; structural unit testing as a service; test generation tool; test parameter; test-case generation; Computer bugs; Instruments; Servers; Software; Software testing; Virtual machining; Testing as a Service; concolic testing; online test generation; structural unit testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Service Oriented System Engineering (SOSE), 2013 IEEE 7th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Redwood City

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5659-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOSE.2013.78

Filename

6525559