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Impacts of Program Structures on Code Coverage of Generated Test Suites

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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2023)

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Abstract

Unit testing is a part of the process of developing software. In unit testing, developers verify that programs properly work as developers intend. Creating a test suite for a unit test is very time-consuming. For this reason, research is being conducted to generate a test suite for unit testing automatically, and before now, some test generation tools have been released. However, test generation tools may not be able to generate a test suite that fully covers a test target. In our research, we investigate the causes of this problem by focusing on structures of test targets to improve test generation tools. As a result, we found four patterns as the causes of this problem and proposed subsequent research directions for each pattern to solve this problem.

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Notes

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    In this paper, the statements partially executed by a generated test suite are presented in . Herein, partially executed means that only a true or false branch is executed by a generated test suite. The statements never executed by a generated test suite are presented in .

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    https://www.eclemma.org/jacoco/.

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This research was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Japan (JP20H04166, JP21K18302, JP21K11829, JP21H04877, JP22H03567, JP22K11985).

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  1. Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    Ryoga Watanabe, Yoshiki Higo & Shinji Kusumoto

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  1. FHV Vorarlberg University of Applied Science, Dornbirn, Austria

    Regine Kadgien

  2. Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas Jedlitschka

  3. FHV Vorarlberg University of Applied Science, Dornbirn, Austria

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  4. University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

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    Xiaozhou Li

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Watanabe, R., Higo, Y., Kusumoto, S. (2024). Impacts of Program Structures on Code Coverage of Generated Test Suites. In: Kadgien, R., Jedlitschka, A., Janes, A., Lenarduzzi, V., Li, X. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14483. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49266-2_24

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