Testing in ASP: Revisited Language and Programming Environment

Amendola, Giovanni; Berei, Tobias; Ricca, Filippo

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-75775-5_24

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“…Conference paper. This work is an extended and revised version of the paper "Testing in ASP: Revisited language and programming environment" accepted for publication in the 17th edition of the European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (Amendola et al 2021). Preliminary results were illustrated during the 35th International Conference on Logic Programming ICLP 2019 (Bogaerts et al 2019).…”

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Unit Testing in ASP Revisited: Language and Test-Driven Development Environment

AMENDOLA,

MAZZOTTA,

RICCA

et al. 2024

Theory and Practice of Logic Programming

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Unit testing frameworks are nowadays considered a best practice, included in almost all modern software development processes, to achieve rapid development of correct specifications. Knowledge representation and reasoning paradigms such as Answer Set Programming (ASP), that have been used in industry-level applications, are not an exception. Indeed, the first unit testing specification language for ASP was proposed in 2011 as a feature of the ASPIDE development environment. Later, a more portable unit testing language was included in the LANA annotation language. In this paper we revisit both languages and tools for unit testing in ASP. We propose a new unit test specification language that allows one to inline tests within ASP programs, and we identify the computational complexity of the tasks associated with checking the various program-correctness assertions. Test-case specifications are transparent to the traditional evaluation, but can be interpreted by a specific testing tool. Thus, we present a novel environment supporting test-driven development of ASP programs.

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