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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception

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This paper cites Evosuite: automatic test suite generation for object-oriented software,.

Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception Evosuite: automatic test suite generation for object-oriented software,

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception Using large language models to generate junit tests: An empirical study,

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception Chatgpt vs sbst: A comparative assessment of unit test suite generation,

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception Chatunitest: A framework for llm-based test generation,

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception Software testing with large language models: Survey, landscape, and vision,

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This paper cites Llms and prompting for unit test genera- tion: A large-scale evaluation,.

Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception Llms and prompting for unit test genera- tion: A large-scale evaluation,

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception On the evaluation of large language models in unit test generation,

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception Large-scale, independent and comprehen- sive study of the power of llms for test case generation,

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception A complexity measure,

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception Cognitive complexity: A new way of measuring under- standability,

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This paper cites Improving the Readability of Automatically Generated Tests using Large Language Models.

Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception Improving the Readability of Automatically Generated Tests using Large Language Models

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This paper cites Leveraging Large Language Models for Enhancing the Understandability of Generated Unit Tests.

Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception Leveraging Large Language Models for Enhancing the Understandability of Generated Unit Tests

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception Investigating the readability of test code,

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception Modeling readability to improve unit tests,

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception A comprehensive model for code readability,

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception Reassessing java code readability models with a human- centered approach,

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception Defects4j: A database of existing faults to enable controlled testing studies for java programs,

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception Automated test case generation as a many-objective optimisation problem with dynamic selection of the targets,

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception PMD An extensible cross-language static code analyzer

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception GPT-4o System Card

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception A metric for software readability,

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception Learning a metric for code readability,

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception A simpler model of software readability,

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception A general software readability model,

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception Towards using visual, semantic and structural features to improve code readability classification,

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception How do annotations affect java code readability?

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception CodeBLEU: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Code Synthesis

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception An empirical validation of cognitive complexity as a measure of source code understandability,

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Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception Do We Need Improved Code Quality Metrics?

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