Revisiting and Improving Retrieval-Augmented Deep Assertion Generation

Understand

Unit testing validates the correctness of the unit under test and has become an essential activity in software development process.

• A unit test consists of a test prefix that drives the unit under test into a particular state, and a test oracle (e.g., assertion), which specifies the behavior in that state.
• To reduce manual efforts in conducting unit testing, Yu et al.
• proposed an integrated approach (integration for short), combining information retrieval (IR) with a deep learning-based approach, to generate assertions for a unit test.