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Automatic Testing and Fixing for Eiffel

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Testing – Practice and Research Techniques (TAIC PART 2010)

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Key aspects of software development, in particular testing and debugging, still commonly rely on manual techniques. If the programs contain enough built-in correctness information, in the form of contracts, it is possible to automate some of the most tedious and error-prone aspects of testing, and even to perform corrections automatically.

At both ETH and Eiffel Software we have developed such techniques and integrated them into Eiffel programming environments, in the form of tools for automated program testing and automated program fixing: the AutoTest and AutoFix frameworks.

Some of the work is still research in progress, but many results have already been integrated in the production version of the EiffelStudio environment.

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  1. Chair of Software Engineering, ETH Zurich, Eiffel Software, Santa Barbara,  

    Bertrand Meyer

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Hull, HU6 7RX, Hull, UK

    Leonardo Bottaci

  2. Department of Computer Science, Saarland University, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Gordon Fraser

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Meyer, B. (2010). Automatic Testing and Fixing for Eiffel. In: Bottaci, L., Fraser, G. (eds) Testing – Practice and Research Techniques. TAIC PART 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6303. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15585-7_1

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