Automated generation of mock objects using symbolic execution

Abstract

Software nowadays is an essential part of our lives, and in order to ensure quality and robustness such software must be fully and rigorously tested. Testing is the most critical milestone of the software development life cycle. The ultimate goal in software development is to fully automate testing and make sure that all possible execution paths are identified and tested. However, current automation technologies suffer from several issues amongst which is that there is no possibility of creating test cases for methods that use indirect inputs within their implementation such as KLEE [1] and JPF [2]. The aim of this project is to investigate the possibility to handle and automate test case generation for such scenarios.