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Testing Erlang Refactorings with QuickCheck

Li, Huiqing and Thompson, Simon (2007) Testing Erlang Refactorings with QuickCheck. In: Lecture Notes In Computer Science archive. Lecture Notes In Computer Science . Springer, Berlin, Germany, pp. 19-36. ISBN 978-3-540-85372-5. E-ISBN 978-3-540-85373-2. (doi:10.1007/978-3-540-85373-2_2) (KAR id:14543)

Abstract

Refactoring is a technique for improving the design of existing programs without changing their behaviour. Wrangler is a tool built at the University of Kent to support Erlang program refactoring; the Wrangler tool is written in Erlang. In this paper we present the use of a novel testing tool, Quviq QuickCheck, for testing the implementation of Wrangler. QuickCheck is a specification-based testing tool for Erlang. With QuickCheck, programs are tested by writing properties in a restricted logic, and using the tool these properties are tested in randomly generated test cases. This paper first gives overviews of Wrangler and Quviq QuickCheck, then discusses the various ways in which refactorings can be validated, and finally shows how QuickCheck can be used to test the correctness of refactorings in an efficient way.

Item Type: Book section
DOI/Identification number: 10.1007/978-3-540-85373-2_2
Uncontrolled keywords: testing, refactoring
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: Mark Wheadon
Date Deposited: 24 Nov 2008 18:04 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:52 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/14543 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Li, Huiqing.

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Thompson, Simon.

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