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Sep 03 2018
Descartes Tutorial at ASE 2018
Place: Montpellier Corum Conference Center
Conference: ASE 2018
Instructors: Benoît Baudry (KTH), Vincent Massol (XWiki), Oscar Luis Vera Pérez (INRIA)
Let the CI spot the holes in tested code with Descartes tool
Bring your laptop, your favorite Java project (with JUnit tests) and find out how much of the covered code is actually specified by the test suite!
In this tutorial, we introduce the intriguing concept of pseudo-tested method, i.e. methods that are covered by the test suite, yet no test case fails when the method body is removed. We show that such methods can be found in mature, well-tested projects and we discuss some possible root causes. Attendants have the opportunity to experiment hands-on with our tool, called Descartes tool, which automatically detects pseudo-tested methods in Java projects.