Platform independent unit tests generator

Abstract

Unit tests are viewed as a coding result of software developers. These unit tests are usually created by developers and implemented directly using specific language and unit testing framework. The existing unit test generation tools usually do the same thing - generate tests for specific language using a specific unit testing framework. Thus such a generator is suitable for only one programming language and unit testing framework. Another drawback of these generators - they use the software code as a source for generation mainly. In this paper we present a tests generator model which could be able to generate unit tests for any language using any unit testing framework. It will be able to use not only software under test code, but the other artifacts, too: models, specifications. © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010.