Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES)

ExecutionFlow: a tool to compute test paths of Java methods and constructors

William Niemiec, Keslley Silva, Érika Cota

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Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES)

Year

2021

DOI

10.1145/3474624.3476014

Abstract

Calculating the code coverage of a test suite depends on the identification of the executed test paths. Available code coverage tools are limited to a few basic tracing strategies and do not provide this information as proper test paths, precluding its use in further analyses. We present ExecutionFlow, a solution to trace executed test paths in Java code. The tool is based on the use of a debugger, aspect-oriented programming, and a testing framework. Through empirical validation we show that it is possible to obtain the test path from several methods and constructors, including high complexity ones. Video demonstration: https://youtu.be/2W5BjVuc6fw

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