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In this paper, we report on the progress made to upgrade and develop a stable upgrading process to the INTO-CPS Application, an Electron.js based desktop application providing a front-end to an INtegrated TOolchain, which is used to develop Cyber-Physical Systems models. We added regression tests to the codebase and for the first time can detect the loss of functionality of the application and its accompanying training tutorials using an automated process. The tests were developed on top of the Mocha, Chai and Spectron frameworks and cover all the tutorials steps performed in the desktop application (approximately 33% of the app and other tools total). The testing process is not yet ready to be deployed in the also recently developed GitHub Actions automated workflow, but this is a possibility to be considered in future developments. We expect this work to improve the stability and security of the code, thus improving user experience.
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We acknowledge the European Union for funding the INTO-CPS project (Grant Agreement 644047) which developed the open toolchain and the INTO-CPS Application, the Poul Due Jensen Foundation that has funded subsequent work on taking this forward towards the engineering of digital twins and the European Union for funding the HUBCAP (Grant Agreement 872698) project.
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Talasila, P., Sanjari, A., Villadsen, K., Thule, C., Larsen, P.G., Macedo, H.D. (2021). Introducing Regression Tests and Upgrades to the INTO-CPS Application. In: Cleophas, L., Massink, M. (eds) Software Engineering and Formal Methods. SEFM 2020 Collocated Workshops. SEFM 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12524. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67220-1_23
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