Web Front-end Testing: Large Scale Analysis and - Rennes, France - IRISA

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Web front-end testing: large scale analysis and techniques improvement:

  • Réf
    ABG-122829
  • Sujet de Thèse 12/04/2024
  • Contrat doctoral
  • IRISA
  • Lieu de travail
  • Rennes
  • Bretagne
  • France
  • Intitulé du sujet
  • Web frontend testing: large scale analysis and techniques improvement
  • Champs scientifiques
  • Informatique

Description du sujet:

Context

Objectives

The global objective of this PhD is to improve the front-end testing techniques.

More precisely, this PhD will focus on the following research questions:
1/ What characterize front-end tests? Mainstream front-end testing toolkit rely on object-oriented testing concepts.

Is there differences between object-oriented test suites and front-end test suites (in terms of complexity, assertions, etc.)? What compose a front-end test? Etc.

Discussing this question requires conducting large scale code analyzes (on code Software Heritage archived).

2/ How to characterize and measure front-end coverage? This question aims at providing front-end testers with dedicate coverage techniques. Test coverage is used to identify elements that are not, or only partially, covered by tests.

As one of the pillars of the testing process, coverage calculation is used to automatically analyze the gaps in a test suite and then determine how to fill them.

Existing front-end testing approaches do not consider all aspects of state-of-the-art front-ends for human-computer interaction and mainly focus on code coverage.

However, a front-end is made of interactive graphical objects, which state may depend on the interactive path a user took using the front-end.

This raises the challenge of gathering and leveraging front-end paths to detect stability and security issues.


3/ How to ease the production of front-end tests? This question focuses on developing techniques to produce (partial) front-end tests automatically using different techniques, such as test amplification or static/dynamic code analysis.

4/ How to maintain front-end tests? Front-end code is composed of multiple languages (e.g. TypeScript, HTML, CSS). Changes in such code may have impacts on their front-end tests. This makes more complex that testing tasks of developers that need to manually modify tests.

This question focuses on easing such a task using adapted techniques such as code analyses, impact analyses in a polyglot context.

Method

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A detailed CV

A cover letter

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