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Record W2898893292 · doi:10.1145/3236024.3236063

Visual web test repair

2018· article· en· W2898893292 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicSoftware Testing and Debugging Techniques
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceFocus (optics)Regression testingWorkflowPipeline (software)Test (biology)Test caseArtificial intelligenceMachine learningDatabaseSoftwareProgramming languageRegression analysisSoftware development

Abstract

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Web tests are prone to break frequently as the application under test evolves, causing much maintenance effort in practice. To detect the root causes of a test breakage, developers typically inspect the test's interactions with the application through the GUI. Existing automated test repair techniques focus instead on the code and entirely ignore visual aspects of the application. We propose a test repair technique that is informed by a visual analysis of the application. Our approach captures relevant visual information from tests execution and analyzes them through a fast image processing pipeline to visually validate test cases as they re-executed for regression purposes. Then, it reports the occurrences of breakages and potential fixes to the testers. Our approach is also equipped with a local crawling mechanism to handle non-trivial breakage scenarios such as the ones that require to repair the test's workflow. We implemented our approach in a tool called Vista. Our empirical evaluation on 2,672 test cases spanning 86 releases of four web applications shows that Vista is able to repair, on average, 81% of the breakages, a 41% increment with respect to existing techniques.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.864
Threshold uncertainty score0.443

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.288
Teacher spread0.271 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Published2018
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