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Saranya Alagarsamy
dblp:340/8692
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2ranked-venue papers
2as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0001-0553-332XORCID · corroborated
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Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 2 · 2 first-author · 2 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Enhancing large language models for text-to-testcase generation
Saranya Alagarsamy, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Wannita Takerngsaksiri, Chetan Arora 0002, Aldeida Aleti |
J. Syst. Softw. | 1 |
| 2024 | A3Test: Assertion-Augmented Automated Test case generationabstractContext: Test case generation is a critical yet challenging task in software development. Recently, AthenaTest – a Deep Learning (DL) approach for generating unit test cases has been proposed. However, our revisiting study reveals that AthenaTest can generate less than one-fifth of the test cases correctly, due to a lack of assertion knowledge and test signature verification. Objective: This paper introduces A3Test, a novel DL-based approach to the generation of test cases, enhanced with assertion knowledge and a mechanism to verify consistency of the name and signatures of the tests. A3Test aims to adapt domain knowledge from assertion generation to test case generation. Method: A3Test employs domain adaptation principles and introduces a verification approach to name consistency and test signatures. We evaluate its effectiveness using 5,278 focal methods from the Defects4j dataset. Results: Our findings indicate that A3Test outperforms AthenaTest and ChatUniTest. A3Test generates 2.16% to 395.43% more correct test cases, achieves 2.17% to 34.29% higher method coverage, and 25.64% higher line coverage. A3Test achieves 2.13% to 12.20% higher branch coverage, 2.22% to 12.20% higher mutation scores, and 2.44% to 55.56% more correct assertions compared to both ChatUniTest and AthenaTest respectively for one iteration. When generating multiple test cases per method A3Test still shows improvements and comparable efficacy to ChatUnitTest. A survey of developers reveals that the majority of the participants 70.51% agree that test cases generated by A3Test are more readable than those generated by EvoSuite. Conclusions: A3Test significantly enhances test case generation through its incorporation of assertion knowledge and test signature verification, contributing to the generation of correct test cases. Saranya Alagarsamy, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Aldeida Aleti |
Inf. Softw. Technol. | 1 |