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Due to current distance mode thesis presentations during spring of 2020 will take place online. See more information on the page for online presentations (also link in the menu). If password is required to access the online presentation, please contact the examiner (type in the examiner's name in the search bar in the top right, and choose "Sök IDA-anställda" in the menu).
- 2021-09-29 kl 10:15 i https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/66943595073?pwd=U0FUcVZtSFZKWnZSQmNxRlVZakxLZz09
Investigating the applicability of execution tracing techniques for root causing randomness-related flaky tests in Python
Författare: Erik Norrestam Held
Opponent: Simon Höglund
Handledare: Azeem Ahmad
Examinator: Ola Leifler
Nivå: Avancerad (30hp)
The aim of this thesis was to investigate the applicability of execution tracing techniques as a means of providing root cause analysis for flaky tests in the randomness and network categories. This involved reproducing and studying flakiness, as well as implementing and evaluating a prototype with the ability to analyze runtime behavior in flaky tests. To gain a better understanding of reproducibility and common traits among flaky tests in the selected categories, a pre-study was conducted. Based on the outcome of the pre-study and findings in related literature, the network category was dropped entirely, and two techniques were chosen to be implemented. The implementation process resulted in the flakypy tool, a plugin for pytest that provides root cause analysis aimed at randomness flakiness. When run against a dataset of 22 flaky tests, the tool was able to identify potential root causes in 15 of these. This serves as an indication that execution tracing has the potential of detecting possible root causes in flaky randomness tests in Python. However, more research is needed to evaluate how developers perceive the usefulness of such tools.
Page responsible: Ola Leifler
Last updated: 2020-06-11
