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TSA
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Industry Motivation
Industry Author
Practitioner Feedback
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Programming Language |
Open-source tool iPerf (114 TCs)
Open-source, small scale |
Fujitsu (Japan) |
C |
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Other Metrics |
Coverage Effectiveness (CE), Number of tests added
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Execution time
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Information Approach |
Algorithm Approach |
Open Challenges |
Coverage-based
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Abstract
Automated unit test generation bears the promise of significantly reducing test cost and hence improving software quality. However, the maintenance cost of the automatically generated tests presents a significant barrier to adoption of this technology. To address this challenge, in previous work, we proposed a novel technique for automated and fine-grained incremental generation of unit tests through minimal augmentation of an existing test suite. In this paper we describe a tool FSX, implementing this technique. We describe the architecture, user-interface, and salient features of FSX, and specific practical use-cases of its technology. We also report on a real, large-scale deployment of FSX as a practical validation of the underlying research contribution and of automated test generation research in general. © 2016 ACM.