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MSR 2019
Sun 26 - Mon 27 May 2019 Montreal, QC, Canada
co-located with ICSE 2019

Good unit tests play a paramount role when it comes to foster and evaluate software quality. However, writing effective tests is an extremely costly and time consuming practice. To reduce such a burden for developers, researchers devised ingenious techniques to automatically generate test suite for existing code bases. Nevertheless, how automatically generated test cases fare against manually written ones is an open research question. In 2008, Bacchelli et al. conducted an initial case study comparing automatic and manually generated test suites. Since in the last ten years we have witnessed a huge amount of work on novel approaches and tools for automatic test generation, in this paper we revise their study using current tools as well as complementing their research method by evaluating these tools’ ability in finding regressions.

Sun 26 May

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11:55 - 12:30
Session IV: Defect Prediction and Testing (Part 2)MSR 2019 Technical Papers / MSR 2019 Data Showcase at Centre-Ville
Chair(s): Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
11:55
6m
Talk
A Dataset of Non-Functional Bugs
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Aida Radu , Sarah Nadi University of Alberta
Pre-print
12:01
6m
Short-paper
Does UML Modeling Associate with Higher Software Quality in Open-Source Software?
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Adithya Raghuraman , Truong Ho-Quang , Michel Chaudron Chalmers University of Technology, Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology, Bogdan Vasilescu Carnegie Mellon University
Pre-print
12:07
6m
Short-paper
STRAIT: A Tool for Automated Software Reliability Growth Analysis
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Stanislav Chren Masaryk University, Radoslav Micko , Barbora Buhnova Masaryk University, Bruno Rossi Masaryk University
Pre-print
12:13
6m
Talk
A Data Set of Program Invariants and Error Paths
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Dirk Beyer LMU Munich
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
12:19
6m
Short-paper
Test Coverage in Python Programs
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Hongyu Zhai , Casey Casalnuovo University of California at Davis, USA, Prem Devanbu University of California
12:25
6m
Short-paper
On the Effectiveness of Manual and Automatic Unit Test Generation: Ten Years Later
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Domenico Serra , Giovanni Grano University of Zurich, Fabio Palomba , Filomena Ferrucci University of Salerno, Harald Gall University of Zurich, Alberto Bacchelli University of Zurich
DOI Pre-print Media Attached