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Automated random testing has shown to be an effective approach to finding faults but still faces a major unsolved issue: how to generate test inputs diverse enough to find many faults and find them quickly. Stateful testing, the automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Yi Wei , Hannes Roth , Carlo A. Furia , Yu Pei , Alexander Horton , Michael Steindorfer , Martin Nordio , Bertrand Meyer

Documenting the functionality of software units with code comments, e.g., Javadoc comments, is a common programmer best-practice in software engineering. This paper introduces a novel test generation technique that exploits the code-comment…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Giovanni Denaro , Luca Guglielmo

Automated unit test generation is an established research field that has so far focused on statically-typed programming languages. The lack of type information in dynamically-typed programming languages, such as Python, inhibits test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Lukas Krodinger , Stephan Lukasczyk , Gordon Fraser

Software testing is an expensive process, which is vital in the industry. Construction of the test-data in software testing requires the major cost and to decide which method to use in order to generate the test data is important. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-25 Arash Mehrmand , Robert Feldt

Common test generators fall into two categories. Generating test inputs at the unit level is fast, but can lead to false alarms when a function is called with inputs that would not occur in a system context. If a generated input at the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Alexander Kampmann , Andreas Zeller

Acceptance testing is a validation activity performed to ensure the conformance of software systems with respect to their functional requirements. In safety critical systems, it plays a crucial role since it is enforced by software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Chunhui Wang , Fabrizio Pastore , Arda Goknil , Lionel C. Briand

The process of testing any software system is an enormous task which is time consuming and costly. The time and required effort to do sufficient testing grow, as the size and complexity of the software grows, which may cause overrun of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-06-05 Ranjita Kumari Swain , Prafulla Kumar Behera , Durga Prasad Mohapatra

Ensemble methods are powerful machine learning algorithms that combine multiple models to enhance prediction capabilities and reduce generalization errors. However, their potential to generate effective test cases for fault detection in a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Sheikh Md. Mushfiqur Rahman , Nasir U. Eisty

Synchronous systems provide a basic model of embedded systems and industrial systems are modeled as Simulink diagrams and/or Lustre programs. Although the test generation problem is critical in the development of safe systems, it often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Daisuke Ishii , Takashi Tomita , Kenji Onishi , Toshiaki Aoki

Many automatic unit test generation tools that can generate unit test cases with high coverage over a program have been proposed. However, most of these tools are ineffective on deep learning (DL) frameworks due to the fact that many of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Arunkaleeshwaran Narayanan , Nima Shiri harzevili , Junjie Wang , Lin Shi , Moshi Wei , Song Wang

Testing provides means pertaining to assuring software performance. The total aim of software industry is actually to make a certain start associated with high quality software for the end user. However, associated with software testing has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Ahmed Mateen , Marriam Nazir , Salman Afsar Awan

Unit testing is a core practice in programming, enabling systematic evaluation of programs produced by human developers or large language models (LLMs). Given the challenges in writing comprehensive unit tests, LLMs have been employed to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dongjun Lee , Changho Hwang , Kimin Lee

Generating unit tests is a crucial task in software development, demanding substantial time and effort from programmers. The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) introduces a novel avenue for unit test script generation. This research…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Shreya Bhatia , Tarushi Gandhi , Dhruv Kumar , Pankaj Jalote

Mobile applications, often simply called "apps", are increasingly widespread, and we use them daily to perform a number of activities. Like all software, apps must be adequately tested to gain confidence that they behave correctly.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-04-01 Shauvik Roy Choudhary , Alessandra Gorla , Alessandro Orso

The hallucination of code generation models hinders their applicability to systems requiring higher safety standards. One critical bottleneck in addressing code hallucination is the difficulty of identifying the functional correctness of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jaewoo Jeong , Taesoo Kim , Sangdon Park

We describe a novel approach to automating unit test generation for Java methods using large language models (LLMs). Existing LLM-based approaches rely on sample usage(s) of the method to test (focal method) and/or provide the entire class…

Automatic assessment of code, in particular to support education, is an important feature included in several Learning Management Systems (LMS), at least to some extent. Several kinds of assessments can be designed, such as exercises asking…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Sébastien Combéfis , Guillaume de Moffarts

Optimization by stochastic gradient descent is an important component of many large-scale machine learning algorithms. A wide variety of such optimization algorithms have been devised; however, it is unclear whether these algorithms are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-26 Tom Schaul , Ioannis Antonoglou , David Silver

Automatic code generation has recently attracted large attention and is becoming more significant to the software development process. Solutions based on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are being used to increase human and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Leon Chemnitz , David Reichenbach , Hani Aldebes , Mariam Naveed , Krishna Narasimhan , Mira Mezini

Automated test generation has helped to reduce the cost of software testing. However, developing effective test oracles for these automatically generated test inputs is a challenging task. Therefore, most automated test generation tools use…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Prashanta Saha , Upulee Kanewala