WEFix: Intelligent Automatic Generation of Explicit Waits for Efficient Web End-to-End Flaky Tests

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09745v1
• Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 06:51:53 GMT
• Title: WEFix: Intelligent Automatic Generation of Explicit Waits for Efficient Web End-to-End Flaky Tests
• Authors: Xinyue Liu, Zihe Song, Weike Fang, Wei Yang, Weihang Wang
• Abstract summary: We propose WEFix, a technique that can automatically generate fix code for UI-based flakiness in web e2e testing. We evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of WEFix against 122 web e2e flaky tests from seven popular real-world projects.
• Score: 13.280540531582945
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Web end-to-end (e2e) testing evaluates the workflow of a web application. It simulates real-world user scenarios to ensure the application flows behave as expected. However, web e2e tests are notorious for being flaky, i.e., the tests can produce inconsistent results despite no changes to the code. One common type of flakiness is caused by nondeterministic execution orders between the test code and the client-side code under test. In particular, UI-based flakiness emerges as a notably prevalent and challenging issue to fix because the test code has limited knowledge about the client-side code execution. In this paper, we propose WEFix, a technique that can automatically generate fix code for UI-based flakiness in web e2e testing. The core of our approach is to leverage browser UI changes to predict the client-side code execution and generate proper wait oracles. We evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of WEFix against 122 web e2e flaky tests from seven popular real-world projects. Our results show that WEFix dramatically reduces the overhead (from 3.7$\times$ to 1.25$\times$) while achieving a high correctness (98%).

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