EvoSuite is a tool that automatically generates unit tests for
Java
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software. EvoSuite uses an
evolutionary algorithm
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to generate
JUnit
JUnit is a unit testing framework for the Java programming language. JUnit has been important in the development of test-driven development, and is one of a family of unit testing frameworks which is collectively known as xUnit that originated w ...
tests. EvoSuite can be run from the command line, and it also has plugins to integrate it in
Maven
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,
IntelliJ
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and
Eclipse
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. EvoSuite has been used on more than a hundred open-source software and several industrial systems, finding thousands of potential bugs.
History
EvoSuite was originally created in 2010 as output of a research project by Dr. Gordon Fraser and Dr. Andrea Arcuri. EvoSuite is currently released under
LGPL
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license, and its source code is hosted on
GitHub
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. In academia, EvoSuite is often referred as one of the main reference tools for search-based software testing.
Other usages
As EvoSuite is released as open-source (and so freely available to download and modify), it has been used as a reference tool for search-based software testing in a number of independent studies, like:
* Comparison with other tools like
Pex
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, CATG, jPET and SPF
* Extension to system level testing for XML inputs
* Extension to study many-objective genetic algorithms
See also
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Test data generation
Test(s), testing, or TEST may refer to:
* Test (assessment), an educational assessment intended to measure the respondents' knowledge or other abilities
Arts and entertainment
* Test (2013 film), ''Test'' (2013 film), an American film
* Test ( ...
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Search-based software engineering
Search-based software engineering (SBSE) applies metaheuristic search techniques such as genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and tabu search to software engineering problems. Many activities in software engineering can be stated as optimizatio ...
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Test automation
In software testing, test automation is the use of software separate from the software being tested to control the execution of tests and the comparison of actual outcomes with predicted outcomes. Test automation can automate some repetitive bu ...
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List of unit testing frameworks
This article is a list of tables of code-driven unit testing frameworks for various programming languages. Some, but not all, of these are based on xUnit.
Columns (classification)
* Name: This column contains the name of the framework and wil ...
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Unit testing
In computer programming, unit testing is a software testing method by which individual units of source code—sets of one or more computer program modules together with associated control data, usage procedures, and operating procedures&md ...
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References
External links
*{{Official , https://www.evosuite.org/
EvoSuite publications page
Java platform software