Scenario-driven fault injection for realistic bugs in web application testing.

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Title:	Scenario-driven fault injection for realistic bugs in web application testing.
Authors:	Maspupah, Asri¹ asri.maspupah@polban.ac.id, Min, Joe Lian¹, Aditya, Yadhi¹
Source:	International Journal of Electrical & Computer Engineering (2088-8708). Aug2026, Vol. 16 Issue 4, p2014-2030. 17p.
Subjects:	Computer software testing, Requirements engineering, Defect tracking (Computer software development), Software failures
Abstract:	Conventional mutation-based fault injection techniques generally produce single-line syntactic faults, which often fail to represent realistic errors at the functional requirement level because requirement context, execution paths, and functional dependencies are not considered. To address this limitation, this study proposes scenario-driven fault injection (SDFI), a scenario-based fault insertion approach that derives faults from functional requirements and test cases. SDFI integrates operational fault localization, web fault taxonomy, fault injection patterns, and functional scenario mapping to produce targeted fault injections at relevant code locations, resulting in a realistic bug dataset with multi-line faults. An experimental evaluation on a real web application produced 29 mutants, achieving a fault detection rate of 89.29% based on the RIP model. Further analysis shows that the generated mutants replicate common real-world bug characteristics, including logic errors, validation anomalies, inter-function data propagation, and multi-line faults affecting client–server application behavior. These results demonstrate that SDFI is effective in producing realistic bug datasets for evaluating software testing quality, improving test case effectiveness, and supporting further research on requirement-based fault realism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstract:	Conventional mutation-based fault injection techniques generally produce single-line syntactic faults, which often fail to represent realistic errors at the functional requirement level because requirement context, execution paths, and functional dependencies are not considered. To address this limitation, this study proposes scenario-driven fault injection (SDFI), a scenario-based fault insertion approach that derives faults from functional requirements and test cases. SDFI integrates operational fault localization, web fault taxonomy, fault injection patterns, and functional scenario mapping to produce targeted fault injections at relevant code locations, resulting in a realistic bug dataset with multi-line faults. An experimental evaluation on a real web application produced 29 mutants, achieving a fault detection rate of 89.29% based on the RIP model. Further analysis shows that the generated mutants replicate common real-world bug characteristics, including logic errors, validation anomalies, inter-function data propagation, and multi-line faults affecting client–server application behavior. These results demonstrate that SDFI is effective in producing realistic bug datasets for evaluating software testing quality, improving test case effectiveness, and supporting further research on requirement-based fault realism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:	20888708
DOI:	10.11591/ijece.v16i4.pp2014-2030