2022

Pynguin: Automated Unit Test Generation for Python

Lukasczyk, Stephan, Fraser, Gordon

Understand

Automated unit test generation is a well-known methodology aiming to reduce the developers' effort of writing tests manually.

  • Prior research focused mainly on statically typed programming languages like Java.
  • In practice, however, dynamically typed languages have received a huge gain in popularity over the last decade.
  • This introduces the need for tools and research on test generation for these languages, too.

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