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ASE 2019
Sun 10 - Fri 15 November 2019 San Diego, California, United States
Thu 14 Nov 2019 16:40 - 17:00 at Cortez 1 - Emerging Domains Chair(s): Joshua Garcia

Modern software systems, such as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), often require interacting with environment or human. As environment and human are unpredictable or non-determinate, uncertainty is inevitable in such systems. In this paper, we proposed UncerTest to test such systems (i.e., CPSs in our context) with an explicit consideration of uncertainty, through test design, test generation, test optimization and test reporting. UncerTest is a model-based and search-based approach that rely on belief models — a test ready model with explicit subjective uncertainties. In UncerTest, we extended an uncertainty-wise test modeling framework (UncerTum) for designing and enabling of introduction of indeterminacy sources in the environment during test execution. To obtain tests, we first proposed an uncertainty-wise test generation with two strategies, designed for different coverage criteria of models, for enabling an automated test generations with uncertainties. In addition, we developed an uncertainty-wise test minimization to optimize the generated tests based on uncertainty related property using multi-objective search. We conducted an extensive empirical study with two phases to evaluate UncerTest with five use cases of two industrial CPS case studies. In the first phase, eight commonly used multi-objective search algorithms were selected for studying the best algorithm for each of the four minimization strategies. Next, the test cases obtained with UncerTest strategies (i.e., two generation strategies combined with four minimization strategies with the best algorithm) were executed on the two real CPSs for studying the performance of each UncerTest strategies. With the best strategy, we managed to observe 51% more uncertainties due to unknown indeterminate behaviors of the physical environments of the CPSs as compared to the other test strategies. In addition, with the same strategy, we managed to observe 118% more unknown uncertainties that are not specified in the test ready models.

Thu 14 Nov

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16:00 - 17:40
Emerging DomainsDemonstrations / Journal First Presentations / Research Papers at Cortez 1
Chair(s): Joshua Garcia University of California, Irvine
16:00
20m
Talk
Improving the Decision-Making Process of Self-Adaptive Systems by Accounting for Tactic Volatility
Research Papers
Jeffrey Palmerino Rochester Institute of Technology, Qi Yu Rochester Institute of Technology, Travis Desell University of North Dakota, Daniel Krutz Rochester Institute of Technology
Pre-print
16:20
20m
Talk
Learning-Guided Network Fuzzing for Testing Cyber-Physical System Defences
Research Papers
Yuqi Chen Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Chris Poskitt Singapore University of Technology and Design, Jun Sun Singapore Management University, Singapore, Sridhar Adepu Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Fan Zhang Zhejiang University, Zhejiang Lab, and Alibaba-Zhejiang University Joint Institute of Frontier Technologies, China
DOI Pre-print File Attached
16:40
20m
Talk
Uncertainty-wise Test Case Generation and Minimization for Cyber-Physical Systems
Journal First Presentations
Man Zhang Kristiania University, Shaukat Ali Simula Research Lab, Tao Yue Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics & Simula Research Laboratory
Link to publication
17:00
20m
Talk
Finding Trends in Software Research
Journal First Presentations
George Mathew Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Amritanshu Agrawal Wayfair, Tim Menzies North Carolina State University
Link to publication
17:20
10m
Demonstration
XRaSE: Towards Virtually Tangible Software using Augmented Reality
Demonstrations
Rohit Mehra Accenture Labs, India, Vibhu Saujanya Sharma Accenture Labs, Vikrant Kaulgud Accenture Labs, India, Sanjay Podder Accenture
17:30
10m
Demonstration
MuSC: A Tool for Mutation Testing of Ethereum Smart Contract
Demonstrations
Zixin Li Nanjing University, Haoran Wu State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Jiehui Xu Nanjing University, Xingya Wang State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Lingming Zhang The University of Texas at Dallas, Zhenyu Chen Nanjing University