Unit testing is an established practice in professional software development. However, in
high-performance computing (HPC) with its scientific applications, it is not widely applied …

Even though the Italian Grid Infrastructure (IGI) is a general purpose distributed platform, in
the past it has been used mainly for serial computations. Parallel applications have been …

Different techniques to automatically generate unit tests for object oriented classes have
been proposed, but how to integrate these tools into the daily activities of software …

Symbolic execution (SE) is one of the most promising techniques for automated unit test
generation, which is claimed to streamline the testing process and reduce developers' effort …

Automated unit tests are an essential software quality assurance measure that is widely
used in practice. In many projects, thus, large volumes of test code have co-evolved with the …

Automated unit test generation has been extensively studied in the literature in recent years.
Previous studies on open source systems have shown that test generation tools are quite …

Unit testing is an essential practice in Extreme Programming (XP) and Test-driven
Development (TDD) and used in many software lifecycle models. Additionally, a lot of …

Regression testing of HPC systems is of crucial importance when it comes to ensure the
quality of service offered to the end users. At the same time, it poses a great challenge to the …

Test Driven Development as well as the documentation of tests and their architecture are
today an important pillar of software quality assurance. The change of requirements during …

This paper describes the use and benefits of the testdriven development paradigm in
parallel application development. A brief background on test-driven development for …