Talk from ESUG09, Cologne, Germany

1. Vincent Blondeau
Test Sucker
How to Convert Real Production
Objects to Automated Test Cases?

2. A SWISS COMPANY
21
5
60
4
Employees with strong
methodology
Founders are top
management
Redundant datacenters
Years old

4. CORE TECHNOLOGY
Development Production

5. OBJECTS ALL OVER
Classes
70 000
1 500 000
Persisted objects
3 TB
Methods

6. EXTREME EFFICIENCY

7. AUTOMATIC TESTING
Lifeware automated testing infrastructure
tests in the code base
times a day all tests run
processors sustain our test environment
coverage informs about untested code
95 000
60
320
Σ

8. CONTRACT CENTRIC SYSTEM

9. DEMO

10. OR BACKUP
SLIDES…

11. CONTRACT CENTRIC SYSTEM

12. CONTRACT TOOLS

13. CONTRACT TOOLS

14. CONTRACT TOOL

15. CONTRACT TOOL

16. TEST SUCKER METHODS

17. TEST SUCKER METHODS

18. TEST SUCKER METHODS

19. CONVERSION TO TEST
Inlining refactorings
- Variables
- Methods

20. TEST SUCKED
Development Production

21. END OF DEMO
BACKUP SLIDES

22. LIMITATIONS
Test sucker
• does not handle manual changes
• has to be
implemented for each
tool
• may become
tedious

23. lifeware.ch
info@lifeware.ch

24. We are looking for innovative problem
solvers!
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Join us to
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