OSean.EX

Object Serialization by Test Suite Execution

This project aims to generate executable jar files with serialized objects for a given commit or a list of them. For that, we instrument a target method of a given target class, and then we run the original project test suites. As a result, a list of serialized objects is generated as XML files.

Getting Started

• Cloning the project: you must clone the repository using the recursive option: git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/leusonmario/OSean.EX

• Maven version: we use Maven as a build manager, so you must install Maven 3.6.0 or newer.

• Setting up dependencies: once the repository is available, you must add the jar file to your local Maven repository. For that, you may use: mvn install:install-file -Dfile=${localRepositoryPath}/src/main/resources/testability-transformations.jar -DgroupId=com.org.testability-transformations -DartifactId=testability-transformations -Dversion=1.0 -Dpackaging=jar

• Running the tests: you may run: mvn clean test

• Generating object serializer executable file: you may run on terminal: mvn clean compile assembly:single. As a result, the jar file ObjectSerialization-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar is expected to be generated in ${localRepositoryPath}/target.

Serializing Objects

Once you have the object serializer jar file, you can call it for a specific project. For that, you must inform:

• local project path;
• target class name;
• target method name;
• project name;
• indication for applying the testability transformations (true/false);
• indication for fully applying the testability transformations (empty constructor, true/false);
• budget time for serialization;
• list of commits.

For example, consider calling the object serializer for this project: java -cp ObjectSerialization-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar org.RunSerialization "/home/lmps2/projects/toy-project" "Person.java" "addRelative" "toy-project" "true" "true" "60" "abdc125" "abdc156".

You may inform up to four (4) commit hashes. The first commit will be used to create the serialized objects; next, they will be deserialized in all commits previously informed. As a result, a jar file for each commit will be generated in /home/lmps2/projects/GeneratedJars/toy-project using each commit hash as the file name.