Journal of Computer Science and Technology ›› 2022, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (2): 389-404.doi: 10.1007/s11390-022-0673-4

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Test-Driven Feature Extraction of Web Components

Yong-Hao Long1,2 (龙永浩), Yan-Cheng Chen1 (陈彦呈), Xiang-Ping Chen3 (陈湘萍), Member, CCF, Xiao-Hong Shi4 (石晓红), and Fan Zhou1,* (周凡)        

  1. 1School of Computer Science and Engineering, National Engineering Research Center of Digital Life, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China
    2School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
    3Guangdong Key Laboratory for Big Data Analysis and Simulation of Public Opinion, The School of Communication and Design, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China
    4School of Information Technology and Engineering, Guangzhou College of Commerce, Guangzhou 511363, China
  • Received:2020-05-31 Revised:2022-01-24 Accepted:2022-02-18 Online:2022-03-31 Published:2022-03-31
  • Contact: Fan Zhou E-mail:isszf@mail.sysu.edu.cn
  • About author:Fan Zhou is currently a professor in Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, in 2007. His research interests include computer graphics, computer aided design and image processing.
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported by the Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province under Grant No. 2020B010165001, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61976061, and Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation under Grant No. 2020A1515010973.

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With the growing requirements of web applications, web components are developed to package the implementation of commonly-used features for reuse. In some cases, the developer may want to reuse some features which cannot be customized by the component's APIs. He/she has to extract the implementation by hand. It is labor-intensive and error-prone. Considering the widely-used test cases which can be useful to specify the software features, a test-driven approach is proposed to extract the implementation of the desired features in web components. The satisfaction of the user's requirements is transformed into the passing rate of user-specified test cases. In this way, the quality of the extraction result can be evaluated automatically. Meanwhile, a record/replay-based GUI test generation method is proposed to ensure that the extraction result has the correct GUI appearance. To extract the feature implementation, a hierarchical genetic algorithm is proposed to find the code snippet that can pass all the tests and has the approximate smallest size. We compare our method with two existing feature extraction methods. The result shows that our method can extract the correct implementation with the minimum size. A human-subject study is conducted to show the effectiveness and weaknesses of our method in helping users extract the features.


Key words: feature extraction; genetic algorithm; graphical user interface; software reuse ;

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