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LLMs and Prompting for Unit Test Generation: A Large-Scale Evaluation

Wendkûuni C. Ouédraogo, Abdoul Kader Kaboré, Haoye Tian, Yewei Song, Anil Koyuncu, Jacques Klein, David Lo, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

Abstract

Unit testing, essential for identifying bugs, is often neglected due to time constraints. Automated test generation tools exist but typically lack readability and require developer intervention. Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT and Mistral show potential in test generation, but their effectiveness remains unclear.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{Ouedraogo-al:ASE24,
  author    = {Wendk{\^{u}}uni C. Ou{\'{e}}draogo and
               Abdoul Kader Kabor{\'{e}} and
               Haoye Tian and
               Yewei Song and
               Anil Koyuncu and
               Jacques Klein and
               David Lo and
               Tegawend{\'{e}} F. Bissyand{\'{e}}},
  title     = {{LLMs} and Prompting for Unit Test Generation: A {Large-Scale} Evaluation},
  booktitle = {ASE},
  pages     = {2464--2465},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2024},
}

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