Paper Info
Title
Unit Test Generation During Software Development: EvoSuite Plugins for Maven, IntelliJ and Jenkins
Abstract
Different techniques to automatically generate unit tests for object oriented classes have been proposed, but how to integrate these tools into the daily activities of software development is a little investigated question. In this paper, we report on our experience in supporting industrial partners in introducing the EvoSuite automated JUnit test generation tool in their software development processes. The first step consisted of providing a plugin to the Apache Maven build infrastructure. The move from a research-oriented point-and-click tool to an automated step of the build process has implications on how developers interact with the tool and generated tests, and therefore, we produced a plugin for the popular IntelliJ Integrated Development Environment (IDE). As build automation is a core component of Continuous Integration (CI), we provide a further plugin to the Jenkins CI system, which allows developers to monitor the results of EvoSuite and integrate generated tests in their source tree. In this paper, we discuss the resulting architecture of the plugins, and the challenges arising when building such plugins. Although the plugins described are targeted for the EvoSuite tool, they can be adapted and their architecture can be reused for other test generation tools as well.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/ICST.2016.44
2016 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST)
Keywords
Field
DocType
software development,EvoSuite plugins,unit test automatic generation,object oriented classes,EvoSuite automated JUnit test generation tool,Apache Maven build infrastructure,research-oriented point-and-click tool,IntelliJ integrated development environment,IntelliJ IDE,continuous integration,Jenkins CI system,software architecture
Architecture,Programming language,Object-oriented programming,Software engineering,Computer science,Development environment,Unit testing,Real-time computing,Automation,Software development process,Plug-in,Software development
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2381-2834
978-1-5090-1828-4
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
16
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrea Arcuri1263092.48
José Creissac Campos247342.36
Gordon Fraser32625116.22