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Java Unit Testing Tool Competition

Xavier Devroey, Sebastiano Panichella, Alessio Gambi

202023 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

We report on the results of the eighth edition of the Java unit testing tool competition. This year, two tools, EvoSuite and Randoop, were executed on a benchmark with (i) new classes under test, selected from open-source software projects, and (ii) the set of classes from one project considered in the previous edition. We relied on an updated infrastructure for the execution of the different tools and the subsequent coverage and mutation analysis based on Docker containers. We considered two different time budgets for test case generation: one an three minutes. This paper describes our methodology and statistical analysis of the results, presents the results achieved by the contestant tools and highlights the challenges we faced during the competition.

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JavaUnit testingComputer scienceBenchmark (surveying)Software engineeringCompetition (biology)Set (abstract data type)Software testingOpen sourceSoftwareOperating systemProgramming languageBiologyEcologyGeodesyGeographySoftware Testing and Debugging TechniquesSoftware Engineering ResearchSoftware Reliability and Analysis Research