Category Archives: Publications

ASE 2014: Continuous Test Generation: Enhancing Continuous Integration with Automated Test Generation

  • [PDF] J. Campos, A. Arcuri, G. Fraser, and R. Abreu, “Continuous Test Generation: Enhancing Continuous Integration with Automated Test Generation,” in IEEE/ACM Int. Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), New York, NY, USA, 2014, pp. 55-66.
    [Bibtex]
    @inproceedings{ase14_ctg,
        AUTHOR="Jose Campos and Andrea Arcuri and Gordon Fraser and Rui Abreu",
        TITLE="Continuous Test Generation: Enhancing Continuous Integration with Automated Test Generation",
        booktitle={IEEE/ACM Int. Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)},
        year = {2014},
        location = {Vasteras, Sweden},
        pages = {55--66},
        numpages = {12},
        publisher = {ACM},
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
    }

EvoSuite at the Second Unit Testing Competition

  • [PDF] G. Fraser and A. Arcuri, “EvoSuite at the Second Unit Testing Tool Competition,” in Future Internet Testing, 2014, pp. 95-100.
    [Bibtex]
    @inproceedings{fittest2014,
      year={2014},
      booktitle={Future Internet Testing},
      series={Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
      editor={Vos, Tanja E.J. and Lakhotia, Kiran and Bauersfeld, Sebastian},
      title={EvoSuite at the Second Unit Testing Tool Competition},
      publisher={Springer International Publishing},
      author={Fraser, Gordon and Arcuri, Andrea},
      pages={95-100},
    }

ISSTA 2014: Extending a Search-Based Test Generator with Adaptive Dynamic Symbolic Execution (Tool paper)

  • [PDF] J. P. Galeotti, G. Fraser, and A. Arcuri, “Extending a Search-Based Test Generator with Adaptive Dynamic Symbolic Execution (Tool paper),” in Proceedings of the 2014 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, New York, NY, USA, 2014, pp. 421-424.
    [Bibtex]
    @inproceedings{issta14_dse,
     author = {Galeotti, Juan Pablo and Fraser, Gordon and Arcuri, Andrea},
     title = {Extending a Search-Based Test Generator with Adaptive Dynamic Symbolic Execution (Tool paper)},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2014 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis},
     series = {ISSTA '14},
     year = {2014},
     numpages = {4},
     publisher = {ACM},
     address = {New York, NY, USA},
     pages={421--424},
     organization={ACM}
    }

Video available here.

JSS: A Memetic Algorithm for Whole Test Suite Generation

  • [PDF] G. Fraser, A. Arcuri, and P. McMinn, “A Memetic Algorithm for Whole Test Suite Generation,” Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 103, pp. 311-327, 2015.
    [Bibtex]
    @article{jss14_memetic,
       journal={Journal of Systems and Software},
       title={A Memetic Algorithm for Whole Test Suite Generation},
       publisher={Elsevier},
       author={Fraser, Gordon and Arcuri, Andrea and McMinn, Phil},
       language={English},
       volume={103},
       pages={311--327},
       year={2015},
    }

EMSE: Achieving Scalable Mutation-based Generation of Whole Test Suites

  • [PDF] G. Fraser and A. Arcuri, “Achieving Scalable Mutation-based Generation of Whole Test Suites,” Empirical Software Engineering, vol. 20, iss. 3, pp. 783-812, 2014.
    [Bibtex]
    @article{emse14_mutation,
       year={2014},
       journal={Empirical Software Engineering},
       title={Achieving Scalable Mutation-based Generation of Whole Test Suites},
       publisher={Springer US},
       author={Fraser, Gordon and Arcuri, Andrea},
       language={English},
       volume={20},
       number={3},
       pages={783--812},
    }

ISSTA 2013: Does Automated White-Box Test Generation Really Help Software Testers?

  • [PDF] G. Fraser, M. Staats, P. McMinn, A. Arcuri, and F. Padberg, “Does Automated White-Box Test Generation Really Help Software Testers?,” in Proceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, New York, NY, USA, 2013.
    [Bibtex]
    @inproceedings{ISSTA13_Study,
     author = {Gordon Fraser and Matt Staats and Phil McMinn and Andrea Arcuri and Frank Padberg},
     title = {Does Automated White-Box Test Generation Really Help Software Testers?},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis},
     series = {ISSTA '13},
     year = {2013},
     publisher = {ACM},
     address = {New York, NY, USA},
    }

GECCO 2013: Test Suite Generation with Memetic Algorithms

  • [PDF] G. Fraser, A. Arcuri, and P. McMinn, “Test Suite Generation with Memetic Algorithms,” in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2013), 2013, pp. 1437-1444.
    [Bibtex]
    @inproceedings{GECCO13_memetic,
      author = {Gordon Fraser and Andrea Arcuri and Phil McMinn},
      title = {Test Suite Generation with Memetic Algorithms},
      booktitle = {Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2013)},
      year = {2013},
      pages={1437--1444},
      organization={ACM}
    }

STVR: Handling test length bloat

  • [PDF] [DOI] G. Fraser and A. Arcuri, “Handling test length bloat,” Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, 2013.
    [Bibtex]
    @article{STVR_bloat,
      author = {Fraser, Gordon and Arcuri, Andrea},
      title = {Handling test length bloat},
      journal = {Software Testing, Verification and Reliability},
      issn = {1099-1689},
      url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/stvr.1495},
      doi = {10.1002/stvr.1495},
      year = {2013},
    }

EvoSuite Tool Demonstration at ICST 2013

We will give a tool demo of EvoSuite at ICST 2013: http://www.icst.lu/site/icst2013/program/schedule

  • [PDF] G. Fraser and A. Arcuri, “EvoSuite: On The Challenges of Test Case Generation in the Real World (Tool Paper),” in ICST’13: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, 2013, pp. 362-369.
    [Bibtex]
    @inproceedings{ICST13_Tool,
       AUTHOR="G. Fraser and A. Arcuri",
       TITLE="EvoSuite: On The Challenges of Test Case Generation in the Real World (Tool Paper)",
       booktitle = {ICST'13: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation},
       publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
       YEAR="2013",
       pages={362--369}
    }

ICST 2013: CrowdOracles: Can the Crowd Solve the Oracle Problem?

  • [PDF] F. Pastore, L. Mariani, and G. Fraser, “CrowdOracles: Can the Crowd Solve the Oracle Problem?,” in ICST’13: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, 2013, pp. 342-351.
    [Bibtex]
    @inproceedings{ICST13_Crowd,
       AUTHOR="Fabrizio Pastore and Leonardo Mariani and Gordon Fraser",
       TITLE="CrowdOracles: Can the Crowd Solve the Oracle Problem?",
       booktitle = {ICST'13: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation},
       publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
       YEAR="2013",
       pages={342--351},
    }