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Effective software testing is critical for producing reliable and secure software, yet many computer science students struggle to master the foundational concepts required to construct comprehensive test suites. While automated feedback…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Shiza Andleeb , Teo Mendoza , Lucas Cordova , Gursimran Walia , Jeffrey C. Carver

Unit tests are widely used to check source code quality, but they can be too coarse-grained or ill-suited for testing individual program statements. We introduce inline tests to make it easier to check for faults in statements. We motivate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Yu Liu , Pengyu Nie , Owolabi Legunsen , Milos Gligoric

Random testing approaches work by generating inputs at random, or by selecting inputs randomly from some pre-defined operational profile. One long-standing question that arises in this and other testing contexts is as follows: When can we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Neil Walkinshaw , Michael Foster , Jose Miguel Rojas , Robert M Hierons

Compilers are complex, and significant effort has been expended on testing them. Techniques such as random program generation and differential testing have proved highly effective and have uncovered thousands of bugs in production…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Davide Italiano , Chris Cummins

The efficient and reliable certification of quantum states is essential for various quantum information processing tasks as well as for the general progress on the implementation of quantum technologies. In the last few years several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 Xiao-Dong Yu , Jiangwei Shang , Otfried Gühne

In the literature, there is a rather clear segregation between manually written tests by developers and automatically generated ones. In this paper, we explore a third solution: to automatically improve existing test cases written by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Benjamin Danglot , Oscar Luis Vera-Pérez , Benoit Baudry , Martin Monperrus

The latest paradigm shift in software development brings in the innovation and automation afforded by Large Language Models (LLMs), showcased by Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT), which has shown remarkable capacity to generate code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Xiaoyin Wang , Dakai Zhu

Software Testing is a well-established area in software engineering, encompassing various techniques and methodologies to ensure the quality and reliability of software systems. However, with the advent of generative artificial intelligence…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Aldeida Aleti

Simulation-based testing has become a standard approach to validating autonomous driving agents prior to real-world deployment. A high-quality validation campaign will exercise an agent in diverse contexts comprised of varying static…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Joy Saha , Trey Woodlief , Sebastian Elbaum , Matthew B. Dwyer

Self-testing is a method of quantum state and measurement estimation that does not rely on assumptions about the inner working of the used devices. Its experimental realization has been limited to sources producing single quantum states so…

Modern web services routinely provide REST APIs for clients to access their functionality. These APIs present unique challenges and opportunities for automated testing, driving the recent development of many techniques and tools that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Myeongsoo Kim , Qi Xin , Saurabh Sinha , Alessandro Orso

Testing probabilistic programs is non-trivial due to their stochastic nature. Given an input, the program may produce different outcomes depending on the underlying stochastic choices in the program. This means testing the expected outcomes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Katrine Christensen , Mahsa Varshosaz , Raúl Pardo

Model-based Testing (MBT) is an effective approach for testing when parts of a system-under-test have the characteristics of a finite state machine (FSM). Despite various strategies in the literature on this topic, little work exists to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Vaclav Rechtberger , Miroslav Bures , Bestoun S. Ahmed , Youcef Belkhier , Jiri Nema , Hynek Schvach

In computer science education, test cases are an integral part of programming assignments since they can be used as assessment items to test students' programming knowledge and provide personalized feedback on student-written code. The goal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Nischal Ashok Kumar , Andrew Lan

Addressing the reproducibility crisis in artificial intelligence through the validation of reported experimental results is a challenging task. It necessitates either the reimplementation of techniques or a meticulous assessment of papers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 György Kovács , Attila Fazekas

Fault-tolerant state preparation is essential for reliable quantum error correction, particularly in Steane-type error correction, which relies on robust ancilla states for syndrome readout. One method of fault-tolerant state preparation is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Erik Weilandt , Tom Peham , Robert Wille

It is crucial that smart contracts are tested thoroughly due to their immutable nature. Even small bugs in smart contracts can lead to huge monetary losses. However, testing is not enough; it is also important to ensure the quality and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Pieter Hartel , Richard Schumi

Self-testing is a powerful certification of quantum systems relying on measured, classical statistics. This paper considers self-testing in bipartite Bell scenarios with small number of inputs and outputs, but with quantum states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Jurij Volčič

Constructing good test cases is difficult and time-consuming, especially if the system under test is still under development and its exact behavior is not yet fixed. We propose a new approach to compute test strategies for reactive systems…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Roderick Bloem , Goerschwin Fey , Fabian Greif , Robert Koenighofer , Ingo Pill , Heinz Riener , Franz Roeck

The focus of this paper is on automating the security testing of RESTful APIs. The testing stage of this specific kind of components is often performed manually, and this is yet considered as a long and difficult activity. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Sebastien Salva , Jarod Sue