In October 2024 I had the pleasure to give a talk for the Quality and Testing Community at Bol ☀️.
During this talk I gave an overall introduction to test generation, which tools are available (mostly research ones…), and dive into two of our research projects: Shaken, Not Stirred. How Developers Like Their Amplified Tests, where we investigate what developers change in automatically generated tests before adding them to their test suite by submitting tests to open source projects and analyzing the maintainer’s feedback. And Using GitHub Copilot for Test Generation in Python: An Empirical Study where we studied the usablity of unmodified GitHub Copilot to generate tests for Python projects.