UC San Diego

In today's software world, the increasing number of software products creates an equivalently increasing number of software bugs. Software engineers counter this by writing tests to check the functionality of their programs. However, as programs become increasingly complex, the process of writing tests becomes lengthened, tedious, and arduous. In response, certain products have been developed to automatically generate and run tests for software engineers. This study explores two such programs, Jtest and Agitator. Given a software program, these tools automatically generate and run tests for the programmer. This study attempts to show the effectiveness of these tools by feeding them sample programs, and observing the types of tests produced. At the end, the tradeoffs between these tools are compared