Good unit tests play a paramount role when it comes to foster and evaluate software quality.
However, writing effective tests is an extremely costly and time consuming practice. To …

We propose Guided Random Testing (GRT), which uses static and dynamic analysis to
include information on program types, data, and dependencies in various stages of …

After four successful JUnit tool competitions, we report on the achievements of a new Java
Unit Testing Tool Competition. This 5th contest introduces statistical analyses in the …

Researchers and practitioners have designed and implemented various automated test
case generators to support effective software testing. Such generators exist for various …

Our community constantly pushes the state-of-the-art by introducing" new" techniques.
These techniques often build on top of, and are compared against, existing systems that …

This paper describes the methodology and results of the 4th edition of the Java Unit Testing
Tool Competition. This year's competition features a number of infrastructure improvements …

Maintenance tasks are often time-consuming and hard to manage. To cope with that,
developers often use failing test cases to guide their maintenance efforts. Therefore, working …

This paper describes the third round of the Java Unit Testing Tool Competition. This edition
of the contest evaluates no less than seven automated testing tools! And, like during the …

The state-of-the-practice in software development is driven by constant change fueled by
continues integration servers. Such constant change demands for frequent and fully …

In recent years, several tools have been developed to automatically select test inputs from
the code of the system under test. However, each of these tools has different advantages …