Generating Class-Level Integration Tests Using Call Site Information

@article{Derakhshanfar2020GeneratingCI,
  title={Generating Class-Level Integration Tests Using Call Site Information},
  author={Pouria Derakhshanfar and Xavier Devroey and Annibale Panichella and Andy Zaidman and Arie van Deursen},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
  year={2020}
}
—Search-based approaches have been used in the literature to automate the process of creating unit test cases. However, related work has shown that generated tests with high code coverage could be ineffective, i.e., they may not detect all faults or kill all injected mutants. In this paper, we propose C LING , an integration-level test case generation approach that exploits how a pair of classes, the caller and the callee, interact with each other through method calls. In particular, C LING… 
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