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Unit testing is essential for software quality assurance, yet writing and maintaining tests remains time-consuming and error-prone. To address this challenge, researchers have proposed various techniques for automating unit test generation,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Dianshu Liao , Xin Yin , Shidong Pan , Chao Ni , Zhenchang Xing , Xiaoyu Sun

Unit testing is an essential part of the software development process, which helps to identify issues with source code in early stages of development and prevent regressions. Machine learning has emerged as viable approach to help software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Michele Tufano , Shao Kun Deng , Neel Sundaresan , Alexey Svyatkovskiy

The ability to generalize to unseen domains is crucial for machine learning systems deployed in the real world, especially when we only have data from limited training domains. In this paper, we propose a simple and effective regularization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Zhenmei Shi , Yifei Ming , Ying Fan , Frederic Sala , Yingyu Liang

Mutation testing is an established software quality assurance technique for the assessment of test suites. While it is well-suited to estimate the general fault-revealing capability of a test suite, it is not practical and informative when…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Ezio Bartocci , Leonardo Mariani , Dejan Nickovic , Drishti Yadav

To be informative, an evaluation must measure how well systems generalize to realistic unseen data. We identify limitations of and propose improvements to current evaluations of text-to-SQL systems. First, we compare human-generated and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Catherine Finegan-Dollak , Jonathan K. Kummerfeld , Li Zhang , Karthik Ramanathan , Sesh Sadasivam , Rui Zhang , Dragomir Radev

This paper presents an approach to automating JUnit test generation for Java applications using the Spring Boot framework, leveraging the LLaMA (Large Language Model Architecture) model to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of the testing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Daniele Gorla , Shivam Kumar , Pietro Nicolaus Roselli Lorenzini , Alireza Alipourfaz

As mathematical computing becomes more democratized in high-level languages, high-performance symbolic-numeric systems are necessary for domain scientists and engineers to get the best performance out of their machine without deep knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Shashi Gowda , Yingbo Ma , Alessandro Cheli , Maja Gwozdz , Viral B. Shah , Alan Edelman , Christopher Rackauckas

Programming based approaches to reasoning tasks have substantially expanded the types of questions models can answer about visual scenes. Yet on benchmark visual reasoning data, when models answer correctly, they produce incorrect programs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Artemis Panagopoulou , Honglu Zhou , Silvio Savarese , Caiming Xiong , Chris Callison-Burch , Mark Yatskar , Juan Carlos Niebles

Automated unit test generation has been widely studied, with Large Language Models (LLMs) recently showing significant potential. Moreover, in the context of unit test generation, these tools prioritize high code coverage, often at the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Zhe Zhang , Xingyu Liu , Yuanzhang Lin , Xiang Gao , Hailong Sun , Yuan Yuan

Property-based testing (PBT) is a popular software testing methodology and is effective in validating the functionality of mobile applications (apps for short). However, its adoption in practice remains limited, largely due to the manual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yiheng Xiong , Ting Su , Jingling Sun , Jue Wang , Qin Li , Geguang Pu , Zhendong Su

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

Software testing remains the most widely used methodology for validating quality of code. However, effectiveness of testing critically depends on the quality of test suites used. Test cases in a test suite consist of two fundamental parts:…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Shan Jiang , Chenguang Zhu , Sarfraz Khurshid

Logical approaches to representing language have developed and evaluated computational models of quantifier words since the 19th century, but today's NLU models still struggle to capture their semantics. We rely on Generalized Quantifier…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Ruixiang Cui , Daniel Hershcovich , Anders Søgaard

Test Impact Analysis is an approach to obtain a subset of tests impacted by code changes. This approach is mainly applied to unit testing where the link between the code and its associated tests is easy to obtain. On the integration level,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Muzammil Shahbaz

Automation of test oracles is one of the most challenging facets of software testing, but remains comparatively less addressed compared to automated test input generation. Test oracles rely on a ground-truth that can distinguish between the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Ali Reza Ibrahimzada , Yigit Varli , Dilara Tekinoglu , Reyhaneh Jabbarvand

Many of the existing approaches for program comprehension rely on the linguistic information found in source code, such as identifier names and comments. Semantic clustering is one such technique for modularization of the system that relies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Amir Saeidi , Jurriaan Hage , Ravi Khadka , Slinger Jansen

We present JAttack, a framework that enables template-based testing for compilers. Using JAttack, a developer writes a template program that describes a set of programs to be generated and given as test inputs to a compiler. Such a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Zhiqiang Zang , Nathan Wiatrek , Milos Gligoric , August Shi

Property-based testing validates software against an executable specification by evaluating it on randomly generated inputs. The standard way that PBT users generate test inputs is via generators that describe how to sample test inputs…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ryan Tjoa , Poorva Garg , Harrison Goldstein , Todd Millstein , Benjamin Pierce , Guy Van den Broeck

Unit testing is a vital part of the software development process and involves developers writing code to verify or assert production code. Furthermore, to help comprehend the test case and troubleshoot issues, developers have the option to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Taryn Takebayashi , Anthony Peruma , Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer , Christian D. Newman

Post-training quantization (PTQ) reduces excessive hardware cost by quantizing full-precision models into lower bit representations on a tiny calibration set, without retraining. Despite the remarkable progress made through recent efforts,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Junrui Xiao , Zhikai Li , Lianwei Yang , Yiduo Mei , Qingyi Gu