Can Generative AI Produce Test Cases? An Experience from the Automotive Domain
Engineers need automated support for software testing. Generative AI is a novel technology for generating new content; however, its applicability for test case generation is still unclear. This work considers the following question: Can generative AI produce test cases in industrial software applications? We framed our question in the automotive domain. We performed our evaluation in collaboration with a large automotive manufacturer to assess to what extent generative AI can produce test cases (a.k.a. test scripts) from informal test case specifications. We considered 1) informal test case specifications defined in Rational Quality Manager, an industrial test management tool from IBM, and 2) executable test scripts specified as ecu.test packages supported by the ecu.test tool from Tracetronic. We used generative AI to produce the test scripts from the informal test case descriptions. Our results show that generative AI can produce correct or near-correct test scripts in a reasonable number of cases. We also analyzed the effects of prompt design, choice of generative AI model, and context accuracy on the effectiveness of our solution and reflected on our results.
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10:30 - 12:30 | Test GenerationResearch Papers / Industry Papers at Cosmos Hall Chair(s): Michael Pradel University of Stuttgart | ||
10:30 20mTalk | CoverUp: Effective High Coverage Test Generation for Python Research Papers Juan Altmayer Pizzorno University of Massachusetts Amherst, Emery D. Berger University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amazon Web Services DOI Pre-print | ||
11:00 20mTalk | Doc2OracLL: Investigating the Impact of Documentation on LLM-based Test Oracle Generation Research Papers Soneya Binta Hossain University of Virginia, Raygan Taylor Dillard University, Matthew B Dwyer University of Virginia DOI | ||
11:20 20mTalk | Less is More: On the Importance of Data Quality for Unit Test Generation Research Papers Junwei Zhang Zhejiang University, Xing Hu Zhejiang University, Shan Gao Huawei, Xin Xia Zhejiang University, David Lo Singapore Management University, Shanping Li Zhejiang University DOI | ||
11:40 20mTalk | Mutation-Guided LLM-based Test Generation at Meta Industry Papers Mark Harman Meta Platforms, Inc. and UCL, Jillian Ritchey Meta platforms, Inna Harper Meta, Shubho Sengupta Meta platforms, Ke Mao Meta, Abhishek Gulati Meta platforms, Christopher Foster Meta platforms, Hervé Robert Meta platforms | ||
12:00 10mTalk | LSPAI: An IDE Plugin for LLM-Powered Multi-Language Unit Test Generation with Language Server Protocol Industry Papers Gwihwan Go Tsinghua University, Chijin Zhou Tsinghua University, Quan Zhang Tsinghua University, Yu Jiang Tsinghua University, Zhao Wei Tencent | ||
12:10 20mTalk | Can Generative AI Produce Test Cases? An Experience from the Automotive Domain Industry Papers Stephen Wynn-Williams McMaster University, Canada, Ryan Tyrrell McMaster University, Vera Pantelic McMaster University, Mark Lawford McMaster University, Claudio Menghi University of Bergamo; McMaster University, Phaneendra Nalla FCA US LLC, Hassan Artail FCA US LLC | ||
This is the main event hall of Clarion Hotel, which will be used to host keynote talks and other plenary sessions. The FSE and ISSTA banquets will also happen in this room.
The room is just in front of the registration desk, on the other side of the main conference area. The large doors with numbers “1” and “2” provide access to the Cosmos Hall.