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Who watches the watchmen: testing our tests
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Maria Clara Santana
July 05, 2018
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Who watches the watchmen: testing our tests
The talk was given at JS Experience 2018.
https://eventos.imasters.com.br/jsexperience
Maria Clara Santana
July 05, 2018
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Transcript
“WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN” Testing our tests Maria C. Santana
JS Experience ‘18
Maria Clara • Front-end Developer @ Picter • Live Coding
Instructor @ Udacity • Likes dogs and sparkling water
Types of software errors • Construction errors; • Specification errors;
• Design errors; • Requirements errors; Toward a theory of test data selection, Softech Inc.
BLACK-BOX TESTING
Input Output
None
None
•Pro: Allows to check the functionality of a program without
worrying with the structure behind it; •Con: Does not offer insights about the tested program’s structure;
High code coverage !== Effective Test Suite
Source: https://gph.is/1jE2Wzg
None
None
Take it with a grain of salt.
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” Satires, 2a.c.
WHITE-BOX TESTING
Input Output
None
None
•Pro: More thorough tests; •Con: Can be complex and require
a lot of work due to implementation changes;
MUTATION TESTING
CONCEPT
#1 STEP Test data Original code
•If it fails, then the original program is wrong; •If
it passes, then we should proceed with creating mutants;
#2 STEP Test data N modified versions of the original
code
•#1: given the test data, the modified versions have different
outputs from the original one; •#2: some (or all of them) versions have the same output of the original one;
MUTATORS TYPES
Not this kind, though…
AAR (array for array replacement)
ABS (absolute value insertion)
AOR (arithmetic operator replacement)
UOI (unary operation insertion)
Many others… • Array constant replacement; • Logical connector replacement;
• Relational operator replacement; • Constant replacement; • Return statement replacement; • Statement deletion; • …
EXAMPLE
Original program
Test suite
Mutant #1 - Conditional operator replacement
Mutant #1 - Test suite results Mutant was killed!
Mutant #2 - Conditional operator replacement
Mutant #2 - Test suite results Mutant has survived… ☹
EQUIVALENT MUTANTS
None
Mutant #3 - Return statement replacement
Mutant #3 - Test suite results Mutant was killed!
mutation score = mutants killed / total of mutants; ->
100%
TOOLS
https://stryker-mutator.io/
Trade-offs •Open-source; •Active maintenance and improvements; •Supports most of the
mainstream runners (karma, jasmine, jest, …); •Does not support React;
Other languages… • Python: https://github.com/mutpy/mutpy; • Ruby: https://github.com/mbj/mutant; • Java:
https://github.com/hcoles/pitest;
PROS
•Application safety; •Evaluation of edge cases; •Better test design;
CONS
•High computational costs; •Filtering equivalent mutants is still a non-optimal
task;
Q&A
THANKS! olarclara.github.io