Randoop 1.2

The Randomized Unit Test Generator for Java

Publications about Randoop

These papers describe Randoop and its underlying techniques in detail.

• “Feedback-directed random test generation”
  by Carlos Pacheco, Shuvendu K. Lahiri, Michael D. Ernst, and Thomas Ball.
  In ICSE '07: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering, (Minneapolis, MN, USA), 2007.
  

  The main paper describing feedback-directed random test generation and Randoop, as well as experiments that compare the technique with other test generation techniques.
  
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• “Randoop: Feedback-directed Random Testing for Java”
  by Carlos Pacheco and Michael D. Ernst.
  In OOPSLA 2007 Companion, Montreal, Canada, Oct. 2007, ACM.
  

  A short tool paper describing aspects of the Java version of Randoop.
  
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• “Finding Errors in .NET with Feedback-directed Random Testing”
  by Carlos Pacheco, Shuvendu K. Lahiri, and Thomas Ball.
  In ISSTA 2008, Seattle, Washington, Aug. 2008.
  

  This case study details the use of Randoop at Microsoft (using a .NET version of Randoop, developed internally at Microsoft). A team of test engineers applied Randoop to a critical .NET component that had been thorughly tested for years. Still, Randoop found many serious errors. The case study appears in ISSTA 2008: International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, (Seattle, Washington), July 20-24, 2008.
  
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Publications that use or evaluate Randoop

The following papers (by other authors) use or evaluate Randoop.

• Predicting Effectiveness of Automatic Testing Tools by Brett Daniel and Marat Boshernitsan. In ASE 2008.
• Predicting and Explaining Automatic Testing Tool Effectiveness by Brett Daniel and Marat Boshernitsan.UIUC Tech Report UIUCDCS-R-2008-2956.
• Improving Structural Testing of Object-Oriented Programs via Integrating Evolutionary Testing and Symbolic Execution" by Kobi Inkumsah and Tao Xie. In ASE 2008.

Courses that use Randoop

• Software Testing (Spring 2008) at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, taught by Marcelo d'Amorim.
• Reliable Software: Testing and Monitoring (Third term 2008), Caltech, taught by Alex Groce.