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Modern Python projects execute computational functions using native libraries and give Python interfaces to boost execution speed; hence, testing these libraries becomes critical to the project's robustness. One challenge is that existing…

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Various mature automated test generation tools exist for statically typed programming languages such as Java. Automatically generating unit tests for dynamically typed programming languages such as Python, however, is substantially more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Stephan Lukasczyk , Florian Kroiß , Gordon Fraser

Automated unit test generation is an established research field, and mature test generation tools exist for statically typed programming languages such as Java. It is, however, substantially more difficult to automatically generate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Stephan Lukasczyk , Florian Kroiß , Gordon Fraser

Automated unit test generation is a well-known methodology aiming to reduce the developers' effort of writing tests manually. Prior research focused mainly on statically typed programming languages like Java. In practice, however,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Stephan Lukasczyk , Gordon Fraser

Python is one of the fastest-growing programming languages and currently ranks as the top language in many lists, even recently overtaking JavaScript as the top language on GitHub. Given its importance in data science and machine learning,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Idriss Abdelmadjid , Robert Dyer

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

Call graphs play an important role in different contexts, such as profiling and vulnerability propagation analysis. Generating call graphs in an efficient manner can be a challenging task when it comes to high-level languages that are…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Vitalis Salis , Thodoris Sotiropoulos , Panos Louridas , Diomidis Spinellis , Dimitris Mitropoulos

Many popular Python libraries use C-extensions for performance-critical operations allowing users to combine the best of the two worlds: The simplicity and versatility of Python and the performance of C. A drawback of this approach is that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Lucas Berg , Lukas Krodinger , Stephan Lukasczyk , Annibale Panichella , Gordon Fraser , Wim Vanhoof , Xavier Devroey

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

Hardware generation languages (HGLs) increase hardware design productivity by creating parameterized modules and test benches. Unfortunately, existing tools are not widely adopted due to several demerits, including limited support for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Jintao Sun , Zeke Wang , Tao Lu , Wenzhi Chen

Software testing is a critical aspect of software development, yet generating test cases remains a routine task for engineers. This paper presents a benchmark, CLOVER, to evaluate models' capabilities in generating and completing test cases…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Jiacheng Xu , Bo Pang , Jin Qu , Hiroaki Hayashi , Caiming Xiong , Yingbo Zhou

Automated regression test generation has been extensively explored, yet generating high-quality tests for Python programs remains particularly challenging. Because of the Python's dynamic typing features, existing approaches, ranging from…

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The rapid evolution of software libraries poses a considerable hurdle for code generation, necessitating continuous adaptation to frequent version updates while preserving backward compatibility. While existing code evolution benchmarks…

We present pytest-inline, the first inline testing framework for Python. We recently proposed inline tests to make it easier to test individual program statements. But, there is no framework-level support for developers to write inline…

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Python has emerged as one of the most popular programming languages, extensively utilized in domains such as machine learning, data analysis, and web applications. Python's dynamic nature and extensive usage make it an attractive candidate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Islem Bouzenia , Bajaj Piyush Krishan , Michael Pradel

This short report presents the 2025 edition of the Java Unit Testing Competition in which four test generation tools (EVOFUZZ, EVOSUITE, BBC, and RANDOOP) were benchmarked on a freshly selected set of 55 Java classes from six different open…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Fitsum Kifetew , Lin Yun , Davide Prandi

Python is one of the most popular programming languages; as such, projects written in Python involve an increasing number of diverse security vulnerabilities. However, existing state-of-the-art analysis tools for Python only support a few…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Yoann Marquer , Domenico Bianculli , Lionel C. Briand

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become a popular choice for many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks due to their versatility and ability to produce high-quality results. Specifically, they are increasingly used for automatic code…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Jessica López Espejel , Mahaman Sanoussi Yahaya Alassan , Merieme Bouhandi , Walid Dahhane , El Hassane Ettifouri

Testing plays a crucial role in the software development cycle, enabling the detection of bugs, vulnerabilities, and other undesirable behaviors. To perform software testing, testers need to write code snippets that execute the program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Wenhan Wang , Chenyuan Yang , Zhijie Wang , Yuheng Huang , Zhaoyang Chu , Da Song , Lingming Zhang , An Ran Chen , Lei Ma

Python is a widely adopted programming language, valued for its simplicity and flexibility. However, its dynamic type system poses significant challenges for automated refactoring - an essential practice in software evolution aimed at…

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