Software Testing

Virtual Reality (VR) is increasingly recognized as a technology with substantial commercial potential, progressively integrated into a wide array of everyday applications and supported by an expanding ecosystem of immersive devices. Despite this growth, the long-term adoption and maintenance of VR applications remain limited, particularly due to the lack of formalized software engineering practices adapted to the unique characteristics of VR environments. Among these challenges, the absence of effective, systematic, and reproducible tools for interaction testing constitutes a significant barrier to ensuring application quality and user experience.

Odoo, a company offering business management services through a modular web application, has continuously expanded the scope and complexity of its software over the years. This growing complexity raises challenges in terms of testing performance, readability, and maintainability. While existing tools such as Tours and Hoot provide solutions for system-level and unit-level testing respectively, a gap remains between the two. This thesis introduces a new approach called Hoot-Intégration, which extends the Hoot testing framework to support integration testing by enabling real server interactions in a lightweight environment. The proposed solution is implemented, validated, and compared against existing tests strategies from Odoo, showing notable gains in execution speed and test clarity. Although some technical limitations remain, the approach is effective and opens the door to future testing improvements in large and scaling modular systems like Odoo.

Dans un contexte où le développement logiciel évolue rapidement, souvent sous l’impulsion du monde industriel, il est essentiel pour les institutions d’enseignement supérieur de maintenir un lien étroit avec les pratiques professionnelles. Cette connexion permet d’adapter les programmes de formation aux réalités du terrain et de garantir la pertinence des compétences transmises aux étudiant·e·s.

This week, two members of our team are attending the IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2025) in Naples, Italy. On Monday, Balfroid Martin took the stage to share research conducted by Manon Galloy, a SNAILee who defended her master’s thesis in 2024. The focus of their presentation was on a novel technique known as SelfBehave, aimed at synthesizing user stories, which was featured during the A-MOST workshop.

Since many years, Odoo, a company providing business management services, is constantly expanding its scope and developing the complexity of its software, a web application. In response to that complexity, the introduction of automated testing techniques seems to be the next evolution of the testing tools already available to them. In the past, other tools for automatically testing web interfaces have been created, but often with limitations. This thesis explores the techniques that can be applied to implement fuzzing on the Odoo software web interface. It is shown that some methods do not seem applicable at present, while others work very well. A viable method will be proposed and implemented, and different configurations of the method will be evaluated. Ultimately, it will be shown that some weaknesses are present in the proposed method, but that future work in this direction can be done.