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Automated test case generation is an effective technique to yield high-coverage test suites. While the majority of research effort has been devoted to satisfying coverage criteria, a recent trend emerged towards optimizing other…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Giovanni Grano , Christoph Laaber , Annibale Panichella , Sebastiano Panichella

Automated unit test generators, particularly search-based software testing tools like EvoSuite, are capable of generating tests with high coverage. Although these generators alleviate the burden of writing unit tests, they often pose…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Amirhossein Deljouyi , Roham Koohestani , Maliheh Izadi , Andy Zaidman

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

Software test cases can be defined as a set of condition where a tester needs to test and determine that the System Under Test (SUT) satisfied with the expected result correctly. This paper discusses the optimization technique in generating…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Rosziati Ibrahim , Ammar Aminuddin Bani Amin , Sapiee Jamel , Jahari Abdul Wahab

With the accelerating development of quantum technologies and their growing computational potential, quantum systems are being adapted for simulations and other critical tasks across diverse domains, making the reliability of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Maryse Ernzer , Seung Yeob Shin , Fabrizio Pastore , Domenico Bianculli

Automatic test generation plays a critical role in software quality assurance. While the recent advances in Search-Based Software Testing (SBST) and Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in generating useful tests, these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Chen Yang , Junjie Chen , Bin Lin , Ziqi Wang , Jianyi Zhou

Unit tests represent the most basic level of testing within the software testing lifecycle and are crucial to ensuring software correctness. Designing and creating unit tests is a costly and labor-intensive process that is ripe for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Andrea Lops , Fedelucio Narducci , Azzurra Ragone , Michelantonio Trizio , Claudio Bartolini

We present a model-based testing approach to support automated test generation with domain-specific concepts. This includes a language expert who is an expert at building test models and domain experts who are experts in the domain of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-02-29 Teemu Kanstrén , Olli-Pekka Puolitaival

The global testing problem studied in this paper is to seek a definite answer to whether a system of concurrent black-boxes has an observable behavior in a given finite (but could be huge) set "Bad". We introduce a novel approach to solve…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gaoyan Xie , Zhe Dang

Testing from Input/Output Transition Systems has been intensely investigated. The conformance between the implementation and the specification is often determined by the so-called ioco-relation. However, generating tests for ioco is usually…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-03-31 Adenilso Simao , Alexandre Petrenko

Context: Software development projects increasingly adopt unit testing as a way to identify and correct program faults early in the construction process. Code that is unit tested should therefore have fewer failures associated with it.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Efstathia Chioteli , Ioannis Batas , Diomidis Spinellis

State-of-the-art search-based approaches for test case generation work at test case level, where tests are represented as sequences of statements. These approaches make use of genetic operators (i.e., mutation and crossover) that create…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Mitchell Olsthoorn , Pouria Derakhshanfar , Annibale Panichella

We introduce the tool HyperQB 2.0, the first highly efficient push-button bounded model checker (BMC) for hyperproperties. HyperQB takes as input a model in NuSMV or Verilog and a formula expressed in the temporal logics HyperLTL or A-HLTL.…

Software Model Checkers have shown outstanding performance improvements in recent times. Moreover, for specific use cases, formal verification techniques have shown to be highly effective, leading to a number of high-profile success…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Rodrigo Castaño , Victor Braberman , Diego Garbervetsky , Sebastian Uchitel

Their highly adaptive nature and the combinatorial explosion of possible configurations makes testing context-oriented programs hard. We propose a methodology to automate the generation of test scenarios for developers of feature-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Pierre Martou , Kim Mens , Benoît Duhoux , Axel Legay

Docker has gained attention as a lightweight container-based virtualization platform. The process for building a Docker image is defined in a text file called a Dockerfile. A Dockerfile can be considered as a kind of source code that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yuki Goto , Shinsuke Matsumoto , Shinji Kusumoto

Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong potential for automated test generation, yet most approaches to generating Java unit tests still rely on mocking frameworks to handle dependencies. Mockless test generation could exercise more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Qinghua Xu , Guancheng Wang , Lionel Briand , Zhaoqiang Guo , Kui Liu

Robotics and Autonomous Systems are increasingly deployed in safety-critical domains, so that demonstrating their safety is essential. Assurance Cases (ACs) provide structured arguments supported by evidence, but generating and maintaining…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Fang Yan , Simon Foster , Ana Cavalcanti , Ibrahim Habli , James Baxter

Industries such as flexible manufacturing and home care will be transformed by the presence of robotic assistants. Assurance of safety and functional soundness for these robotic systems will require rigorous verification and validation. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Dejanira Araiza-Illan , David Western , Anthony G. Pipe , Kerstin Eder

The control logic models built by Simulink or Ptolemy have been widely used in industry scenes. It is an urgent need to ensure the safety and security of the control logic models. Test case generation technologies are widely used to ensure…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Yixiao Yang