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FSX: a tool for fine-grained incremental unit test generation for C/C++ programs

Hiroaki Yoshida, Susumu Tokumoto, Mukul R. Prasad, Indradeep Ghosh, Tadahiro Uehara

PDFDOI 10.1145/2950290.2983937dblp

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.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{Yoshida-al:FSE16,
  author    = {Hiroaki Yoshida and
               Susumu Tokumoto and
               Mukul R. Prasad and
               Indradeep Ghosh and
               Tadahiro Uehara},
  title     = {{FSX:} a tool for fine-grained incremental unit test generation for {C/C++} programs},
  booktitle = {FSE},
  pages     = {1052--1056},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2016},
}

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