Testing Django configurations using combinatorial interaction testing

Abstract

Combinatorial Interaction Testing (CIT) is important because it tests the interactions between the many parameters that make up the configuration space of software systems. We apply this testing paradigm to a Python-based framework for rapid development of web based applications called Django. In particular, we automatically create a CIT model for Django website configurations and run a state-of-the-art tool for CIT test suite generation to obtain sets of test configurations. Our automatic CIT-based approach is able to efficiently detect invalid configurations.