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Status Report on Software Testing: Test-Comp 2021

Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNTCS,volume 12649)

Abstract

This report describes Test-Comp 2021, the 3rd edition of the Competition on Software Testing. The competition is a series of annual comparative evaluations of fully automatic software test generators for C programs. The competition has a strong focus on reproducibility of its results and its main goal is to provide an overview of the current state of the art in the area of automatic test-generation. The competition was based on 3 173 test-generation tasks for C programs. Each test-generation task consisted of a program and a test specification (error coverage, branch coverage). Test-Comp 2021 had 11 participating test generators from 6 countries.

Keywords

  • Software Testing
  • Test-Case Generation
  • Competition
  • Program Analysis
  • Software Validation
  • Software Bugs
  • Test Validation
  • Test-Comp
  • Benchmarking
  • Test Coverage
  • Bug Finding
  • Test-Suites
  • BenchExec
  • TestCov

This report extends previous reports on Test-Comp [4,5,6].

Reproduction packages are available on Zenodo (see Table 3).

Funded in part by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – 418257054 (Coop).

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Beyer, D. (2021). Status Report on Software Testing: Test-Comp 2021. In: Guerra, E., Stoelinga, M. (eds) Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering. FASE 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12649. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71500-7_17

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