ASE 2014 accepts the publication of HASLab
The publication "Continuous Test Generation: Enhancing Continuous" of Rui Maranhão, one of the researchers at HASLab, in collaboration with researchers at Simula Research Laboratory and U.Sheffield was recently accepted at ASE 2014 - International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, one of the most important conference in the area of Software Engineering.
In the development of software oriented to objects and tools of automatic generation of unit tests, it is only used the information related to the class of which they are generating tests, thus being myopic in relation to other classes of the project. The context and changes of the classes offer a significant potential to improve the generation of unit test.
In this article, the authors propose a Continuous Test Generation (CTG) approach which includes the automatic generation of unit tests during the software development stage.
The CTG offers several advantages, including, answering the question of how long it takes to generate tests for each class of the project; it helps decide the order in which classes should be tested and it also helps prioritize classes in order to generate tests for classes that were changed recently.
The proposed technique was evaluated using eight popular projects in Github, ten projects selected randomly from the corpus SF100 and five industrial projects presenting better results when compared with the techniques in the state of the art.
