Unit tests reloaded: parameterized unit testing with symbolic execution Export

@article{citeulike:1550191, abstract = {Unit tests are becoming popular. Are there ways to automate the generation of good unit tests? Parameterized unit tests are unit tests that depend on inputs. PUTs describe behavior more concisely than traditional unit tests. We use symbolic execution techniques and constraint solving to find inputs for PUTs that achieve high code coverage, to turn existing unit tests into PUTs, and to generate entirely new PUTs that describe an existing implementation's behavior. Traditional testing benefits from these techniques because test inputs - including the behavior of entire classes - can often be generated automatically from compact PUTs}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, author = {Tillmann, N. and Schulte, W.}, booktitle = {Software, IEEE}, citeulike-article-id = {1550191}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1159389}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2006.117}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MS.2006.117}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1657937}, doi = {10.1109/MS.2006.117}, issn = {0740-7459}, journal = {Software, IEEE}, keywords = {execution, parameterized, symbolic, test, unit}, month = {July}, number = {4}, pages = {38--47}, posted-at = {2009-07-16 13:08:37}, priority = {0}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press}, title = {Unit tests reloaded: parameterized unit testing with symbolic execution}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MS.2006.117}, volume = {23}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1550191 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1550191 N2 - Unit tests are becoming popular. Are there ways to automate the generation of good unit tests? Parameterized unit tests are unit tests that depend on inputs. PUTs describe behavior more concisely than traditional unit tests. We use symbolic execution techniques and constraint solving to find inputs for PUTs that achieve high code coverage, to turn existing unit tests into PUTs, and to generate entirely new PUTs that describe an existing implementation's behavior. Traditional testing benefits from these techniques because test inputs - including the behavior of entire classes - can often be generated automatically from compact PUTs IS - 4 JF - Software, IEEE SN - 0740-7459 AD - Los Alamitos, CA, USA EP - 47 TI - Unit tests reloaded: parameterized unit testing with symbolic execution PB - IEEE Computer Society Press VL - 23 T2 - Software, IEEE SP - 38 KW - execution KW - parameterized KW - symbolic KW - test KW - unit AU - Tillmann, N AU - Schulte, W PY - 2006/07// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MS.2006.117 ER -