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@inproceedings{DemeyerVST2022,
author = {Serge Demeyer and Mehrdad Abdi and Ebert Schoofs},
booktitle = {Proceedings {VST} 2022 (IEEE Workshop on Validation,
Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests)},
pages = {1175-1178},
publisher = {IEEE},
title = {Type Profiling to the Rescue: Test Amplification in
Python and Smalltalk},
year = {2022},
abstract = {Software test amplification is the act of
strength-ening manually written test-cases to
exercise the boundary conditions of the system under
test. It has been demonstrated by the research
community to work for the programming language Java,
relying on the static type system to safely transform
the code under test. In dynamically typed languages,
such type declarations are not available, and as a
consequence test amplification has yet to find its
way to programming languages like Smalltalk, Python,
Ruby and Javascript. The AnSyMo research group has
created two proof of concept tools for languages
without a static type system: AmPyfier (for Python)
and Small-Amp (for Pharo-Smalltalk). In this tool
demonstration paper we explain how we relied on
profiling libraries present in the respective
eco-systems to infer the necessary type information
for enabling full-blown test amplification.},
annote = {workshoppaper},
doi = {10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00136},
}