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

H. Yoshida, Susumu Tokumoto, M. Prasad, Indradeep Ghosh, T. Uehara
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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.
FSX:为C/ c++程序生成细粒度增量单元测试的工具
自动化单元测试生成承担着显著降低测试成本并因此提高软件质量的承诺。然而,自动生成测试的维护成本是采用该技术的一个重大障碍。为了应对这一挑战,在之前的工作中,我们提出了一种新的技术,通过对现有测试套件的最小扩展来实现单元测试的自动化和细粒度增量生成。在本文中,我们描述了一个工具FSX来实现这一技术。我们描述了FSX的架构、用户界面和显著特性,以及其技术的具体实际用例。我们还报告了一个真实的、大规模的FSX部署,作为对底层研究贡献和自动化测试生成研究的实际验证。
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