Automatically Documenting Unit Test Cases
This web page is a companion to our ICST 2016 paper submission entitled "Automatically Documenting Unit Test Cases".
1. What is UnitTestScribe?
UnitTestScribe combines static analysis, natural language processing, backward slicing, and code summarization techniques in order to automatically generate expressive natrual language descriptions concisely documenting the purpose of unit test methods.
The following diagram depicts the UnitTestScribe components:
2. User Study - UnitTestScribe
2.1 Suvery 1
Demographic Plots for participants (212 developers) in our first survey are shown in following figures:
Survey 2
Results(from group 2) generated by Qualtrics are available at here.
3. UnitTestScribe Descriptions and subject application data
- The repositories for the systems are in the following links: SrcML.NET, Sando, Glimpse, Google-api-dotnet
- The descriptions in HTML version for the systems are in the following links: SrcML.NET, Sando, Glimpse, Google-api-dotnet-client
*Authors
- Boyang Li
- The College of William and Mary, VA, USA.
E-mail: boyang at cs dot wm dot edu - Christopher Vendome
- The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA.
E-mail: cvendome at cs dot wm dot edu - Mario Linares-Vásquez
- The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA.
E-mail: mlinarev at cs dot wm dot edu - Denys Poshyvanyk
- The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA
E-mail: denys at cs dot wm dot edu - Nicholas A. Kraft
- ABB Corporate Research Center, Raleigh, NC, USA.
E-mail: nicholas.a.kraft at us dot abb dot com