On the effect of object redundancy elimination in randomly testing collection classes
Pablo Ponzio, Valeria S. Bengolea, Simón Gutiérrez Brida, Gastón Scilingo, Nazareno Aguirre, Marcelo Fabian Frias · 2018
In this paper, we analyze the effect of reducing object redundancy in random testing, by comparing the Randoop random testing tool with a version of the tool that disregards tests that only produce objects that have been previously generated by other tests. As a side effect, this variant also identifies methods in the software under test that never participate in state changes, and uses these more heavily when building assertions.