XCorpus – An executable corpus of java programs
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2017-09-25
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AITO
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Licensed under Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0).
Abstract
Empirical studies on code require standardized datasets of significant size extracted from real-world programs in order to be reproducible and generalisable. We argue that there is a need for such data sets that are executable and can therefore be used for experiments using static and dynamic analysis. A harness for such a data set should have high coverage in order to facilitate the construction of comprehensive models of program execution. We present XCorpus, a set of 76 executable, real-world Java programs, including a subset of 70 programs from the Qualitas Corpus. XCorpus uses a harness that is a combination of built-in and generated test cases, resulting in a branch coverage that is significantly better than what is available from DaCapo.
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data set, benchmark, Java, empirical study, program analysis, test case generation, test coverage, dynamic program analysis
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The Journal of Object Technology, 2017, 16 (4), pp. 1 - 24