Publication: Linux Magazine
Title: Test amplification for DevOps
Date: June 2019
Author: Caroline Landry (INRIA)

Descartes, DSpot, CAMP and Botsing, the four main STAMP testing tools are described in the June 2019 issue of the French printed publication Linux Magazine. The article explains testing amplification as a new technique to automatically analyze and transform the tests produced by the development teams to increase confidence with each commit. The approach  starts with the code produced by the developers: unit tests case, APIs, configuration files. Then, the amplification automatically analyzes and transforms this code to generate variants which will make it possible to test more intensely.

• Linux Magazine June 2019
• Caroline Landry French Article about STAMP tools (PDF)
• HAL: "L'amplification de tests pour DevOps"

Title: OW2con'19 confirms the industrial maturity of open source

Abstract: The OW2 open source community supports many innovative European projects. It signals cooperation around open codes as a key for IT industry services.

On June 12th and 13th, at Orange's innovation center in Paris Châtillon, the OW2 open source community brought together more than 300 decision-makers and developers from 13 different nationalities. The opportunity to confirm the concrete progress of the members and projects of the association, and its growing role in European research, through Horizon 2020 projects in particular. OW2's annual conference provides an overview of European open source research with Aegis, Crossminer, Decoder, Fasten, Melodic, ReachOut, and Stamp projects, with research projects often delivering open and actionable tools by corporate IT departments.

• Read the full (French) article in Solutions Numériques
• Read the full (French) article in Global Security Magazine
• Read the full (French) article in Programmez

More than 30 presentations and breakout sessions showing open source software industrial maturity
 are offered at OW2con’19, the free OW2 community conference, June 12-13, 2019.

Paris, June 12, 2019 - OW2, the international community dedicated to develop and to promote an open source code base for information systems announces the program of its 2019 annual conference. With this year theme  “Open Source: Toward industry Maturity”, OW2con’19 offers two days of project presentations and demonstrations, round tables, workshops and prestigious guest speakers. ...

Publication: Programmez!
Title: Automated tests to support DevOps teams
Date: March 2019
Authors: Olivier Bouzereau with the STAMP project team

A three pages article about STAMP tools and methodologies has been published in the March 2019 issue of the French printed publication Programmez!  The article explains the growing importance of automated tests, now required for continuous development and continuous integration. New testing tools are improving their speed to deploy more frequent releases of services with less bugs. Amplifying tests in a DevOps approach, the STAMP open source toolset (including DSpot, Descartes, CAMP and Botsing) improves Java test suite and reduce deployed application crashes. Mutation testing examples and use cases are provided in this article. Readers are driven to the beta testing webpage in order to download STAMP tools, try them and give their user experience feedback.

Programmez! March 2019.

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Improve your software quality with STAMP open source tools. Join Station F workshop in Paris next February 27, 2019.

Paris, February 13, 2019 - OW2, the global community for open source infrastructure software and its founding member Inria, the French national research institute for the digital sciences, are inviting entrepreneurs, developers and DevOps teams to a software quality Tech Talk. This talk will be provided by Caroline Landry, Inria Research Engineer on Wednesday 27 February from 2:15PM at French Tech Central Station F, 55 boulevard Vincent Auriol, 75013 Paris. It will be followed by a Networking Coffee and a workshop dedicated on STAMP automation tools, the direct outcome of an ongoing project supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. 

STAMP stands for "Software Testing AMPlification". The STAMP tools act along the Continuous Integration and Continuous Distribution pipeline (CI/CD), reducing errors and eliminating failures in Java applications while they are being designed, configured, and sent to production. Using DSpot, STAMP users can detect and generate automatically missing assertions for Junit test cases. Adding Descartes, a Pitest plugin, to their own Java code, they get more actionable and faster mutation analysis results. CAMP brings configuration amplification based on Docker while Botsing offers a Java framework for crash reproduction.

Free registration is required to attend to the Station F talk and workshop: https://www.stamp-project.eu/view/Blog/StationF_STAMP_presentation  

Programme :

2h30-3h10: Part 1, Caroline Landry, Research Engineer at Inria Rennes, details STAMP tools and their business benefits, with the ActiveEon use case.
3h10-3h30: Networking coffee – Join the STAMP project experts to discuss about your own testing practices and problems
3h30-4h30: Part 2, STAMP Workshop focused on your Java project unit tests, and configuration tests for your Docker project. Take this opportunity to talk with Benjamin Danglot (Inria) and more STAMP tools designers from TUDelft and Sintef.

About STAMP 

Leveraging advanced research in automatic test generation, STAMP aims at pushing automation in DevOps one step further through innovative methods of test amplification. The project is developed by a consortium of ten partners and has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The STAMP toolset is evolving frequently. Stay tuned and visit: https://www.stamp-project.eu/      

About Inria
Inria, the French national research institute for the digital sciences, promotes scientific excellence and technology transfer to maximise its impact. It employs 2,400 people. Its 200 agile project teams, generally in collaboration with academic partners, involve more than 3,000 scientists in meeting the challenges of computer science and mathematics, often at the interface of other disciplines. Inria works with many companies and supported the creation of over 160 startups. It strives to meet the challenges of the digital transformation of science, society and the economy. Visit: https://www.inria.fr

About OW2
OW2 is an independent industry community dedicated to developing open source code infrastructure (middleware and generic applications) and to fostering a vibrant community and business ecosystem. The OW2 Consortium hosts some one hundred technology projects, including  ASM, Bonita, Chameleon, CLIF, DocDoku, Easybeans, Emerginov, Fractal, FusionDirectory, JOnAS, JORAM, JOTM, Knowage, LemonLDAP:NG, Lutece, OCCInterface, PetalsESB, Prelude, ProActive, RocketChat, SAT4J, Spagic, Spago4Q, Sympa, Talend Studio, Telosys, WebLab and Xwiki. Visit: https://www.ow2.org 

The Sophia-Antipolis Workshop is announced by Jean-Pierre Largillet in WebTime Medias:

STAMP workshop à Sophia : l'état de l'art en optimisation des tests Java

Pour tous les chercheurs, développeurs et testeurs Java, ainsi que pour toute la communauté test et qualité logiciel azuréenne, ce sera une très belle occasion d'échanger concrètement sur les meilleures pratiques dans le domaine des tests Java.

Read the full post on WebTimeMedias

The Sophia-Antipolis Workshop is announced in the Agenda du Libre:

Sophia-Antipolis : Découvrez les outils open source de tests automatisés STAMP

Destiné aux chercheurs, entrepreneurs, développeurs et testeurs, cet atelier offre l'occasion unique d’interagir avec les concepteurs d’outils du projet H2020 STAMP soutenu par l’Union Européenne.

Read the full post on Agenda du Libre

The STAMP Workshop in Sophia-Antipolis is announced by Marc Jacob on January 17, 2019, in French:

30 Janvier Sophia-Antipolis - Atelier STAMP : l’état de l’art des tests automatiques Java 

Destiné aux chercheurs, développeurs et testeurs java, cet atelier offre l’occasion unique d’interagir avec les concepteurs d’outils du projet H2020 STAMP. Venez avec votre suite de tests java sur votre ordinateur portable. Démonstrations et tutoriels permettront d’échanger concrètement autour des meilleures pratiques DevOps.

Read the full post on Global Security Mag

The STAMP Workshop in Sophia-Antipolis is announced by Nice Chamber of Commerce on January 17, 2019, in French:

Destiné aux chercheurs, entrepreneurs, développeurs et testeurs, cet atelier offre l'occasion unique d’interagir avec les concepteurs d’outils du projet H2020 STAMP soutenu par l’UE.
Venez avec votre suite de tests java sur votre ordinateur portable. Démonstrations et tutoriels permettront d’échanger concrètement autour des meilleures pratiques du moment.

Read the full post on Nice Côte d'Azur Website

The STAMP beta testing campaign press release appears in the Intrusio website, November 30, 2018.

• Read the Intrusio article (French)

The STAMP beta testing campaign press release has been posted on Global Security Mag November 29, 2018.

• Read the Global Security Mag article (French)

The Cloud Expo Europe blog published the STAMP beta-testing campaign press release on November 15, 2018.

• Read the STAMP beta-testing campaign post in Cloud Expo Europe Blog (French)
• Discover more about the project team efforts during this edition of Cloud Expo Europe 

Using innovative STAMP open source tools, Java developers and DevOps teams can now produce quality releases faster and more frequently.

Paris, November 15, 2018 - OW2, the global community for open source infrastructure software, announces the launch of STAMP beta-testing campaign. Java developers and DevOps teams are invited to download and try DSpot and Descartes, both outcomes of the STAMP project supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

The STAMP beta-testing campaign is starting online at: l.ow2.org/stpbeta  

STAMP stands for "Software Testing AMPlification". The STAMP tools act along the Continuous Integration and Continuous Distribution pipeline (CI/CD), reducing errors and eliminating failures in Java applications while they are being designed, configured, and sent to production. 

STAMP users obtain a modern testing toolset to leverage their Java testing assets. They can produce software releases more frequently, more rapidly, with higher quality.

Using DSpot, STAMP early users can detect and generate automatically missing assertions for Junit test cases, also known as test amplification. Adding Descartes, a Pitest plugin, to their own java code, they get more actionable and faster mutation analysis results. 

Beta-testers are requested to fill in a short questionnaire by 25 March 2019 to provide their feedback and help fine-tune the toolset. They will also be distinguished as STAMP contributors and enter the community. Moreover, the first campaign participants will receive a customized “STAMP test pilot” gift.
A dedicated mailing list has been set up to allow Beta-testers to exchange and share their experiences. 

About STAMP Project 

Leveraging advanced research in automatic test generation, STAMP aims at pushing automation in DevOps one step further through innovative methods of test amplification. The project is developed by a consortium of ten partners and has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The STAMP toolset is evolving frequently. Stay tuned and visit: https://www.stamp-project.eu/      

About OW2
OW2 is an independent industry community dedicated to developing open source code infrastructure (middleware and generic applications) and to fostering a vibrant community and business ecosystem. The OW2 Consortium hosts some one hundred technology projects, including  ASM, Bonita, Chameleon, CLIF, DocDoku, Easybeans, Emerginov, Fractal, FusionDirectory, JOnAS, JORAM, JOTM, Knowage, LemonLDAP:NG, Lutece, OCCInterface, PetalsESB, Prelude, ProActive, RocketChat, SAT4J, Spagic, Spago4Q, Sympa, Talend Studio, Telosys, WebLab and Xwiki. Visit: https://www.ow2.org 

• English version: Download this Press Release (PDF)
• Version française: Téléchargez ce communiqué de presse (PDF)

Check out the interview of Caroline Landry, STAMP Project Manager at Inria, during EclipseCon France 2018.
 USE Media Macro instead this one 

Channel: Les CastCodeurs
Podcast: Listen to the audio
Language: French

In this podcast, the French CastCoders are talking news from the latest developer conferences, including RedHat Summit, Google IO, and Devoxx UK.
For example, AI technologies are progressing with several vocal requests now grouped in a context. Micro-service platforms are also evolving very fast.
Vincent Massol, XWiki CTO, explains the STAMP R&D project objectives, mutation testing tools and several use cases.

The mutation testing page in Wikipedia now refers to Descartes and STAMP project:

Descartes A mutation engine plugin for PIT based on extreme mutation testing, developed within STAMP research project.

As open source community partner of Cloud Computing World Expo, OW2 stands out as the exhibition area dedicated to Open Source Cloud and stimulates public debates on the topic.

Paris, March 12, 2017 -   OW2, the global community for open source infrastructure software, announces its presence at Cloud Computing World Expo, March 21-22, in Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles, Hall 5.2. The community will be visible on the #F17 booth  and during the Open Cloud Forum by OW2, with speakers from OW2 members (ActiveEon, Bonitasoft, Inria) and from European-funded R&D projects STAMP and CROSSMINER. This forum offers to the professional visitors and to the pre-registered attendees the following agenda:
On Wednesday  March 21, in the Amsterdam Room, Horizon 2020 project partners, OW2 members and open source software experts will share their views and experiences on:

- 16:00-16:20: The STAMP project: An R&D project leveraging the latest research in automatic test generation with Caroline Landry, Software Architect, Inria (read her recent interview).

- 16:20-16:40: The CROSSMINER Project: Developer-Centric Knowledge Mining from Large Open-Source Software Repositories with Alessandra Bagnatto, Research Project Manager, SOFTEAM

- 16:40-17:20: Round table: Continuous Integration & test automation
with Caroline Landry, Inria - Alessandra Bagnatto, Research Project Manager, SOFTEAM - Jules-Henry Gavetti, CEO, IKOUKA - Stéphane Laurière, CTO, OW2

- 17:20-18:00: Round table: AI, BPM and cloud orchestration
with Antoine Mottier, Evangelist, BONITASOFT - Denis Caromel, CEO, ACTIVEEON - Stéphane Laurière, CTO, OW2

- 18:00-18:30: OW2 General Assembly with Cedric Thomas, CEO, OW2

Registration to the Cloud Computing World Expo is free. For more information and registration:
https://www.ow2.org/view/Events/Cloud_Computing_World_Expo_Paris_2018 

About OW2
OW2 is an independent industry community dedicated to developing open source code infrastructure (middleware and generic applications) and to fostering a vibrant community and business ecosystem. The OW2 Consortium hosts some one hundred technology projects, including ASM, Bonita, Chameleon, CLIF, DocDoku, Easybeans, Emerginov, Fractal, FusionDirectory, JOnAS, JORAM, JOTM, Knowage, LemonLDAP:NG, Lutece, OCCInterface, PetalsESB, Prelude, ProActive, Rocket.Chat, SAT4J, Spagic, Spago4Q, Sympa, Talend Studio, Telosys, WebLab, XWiki.  Visit https://www.ow2.org  

Download the Press Release (PDF)

STAMP - DevOps : Bringing Automated Test Generation

Source: INRIA Website

Date: December 2016

A powerful software development methodology, DevOps has become a very popular tool in the US for it greatly helps web giants to deliver more frequent updates. True enough, Europe hasn't catch up yet. Coordinated by Inria, STAMP is a consortium whose aim is to provide a critical missing piece to this methodology. To wit: an automated test generation tool that would make DevOps less risky and incidentally more palatable to European companies. This projet has just been selected as part of the EU H2020 call for proposals ICT-10-2016 ‘Software Technologies’.

Read the full article on INRIA website.