Test-infected: programmers love writing tests

By Kent L. Beck, E. Gamma. 2000

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JCrasher: an automatic robustness tester for Java (2004, methodology): “• JCrasher produces test files for JUnit [9]—a popular Java unit testing tool—and can be integrated as a plug-in in the Eclipse IDE.”
Preliminary design of JML: a behavioral interface specification language for java (2006, methodology): “The run time assertion checker is also integrated with a tool, jmlunit that can write out a JUnit [ BG98 ] test oracle class for given Java files.”
A Simple and Practical Approach to Unit Testing: The JML and JUnit Way (2002, methodology): “JUnit is a simple, useful testing framework for Java [4, 23].”
Korat: automated testing based on Java predicates (2002, methodology): “JML+JUnit, thus, automates both test execution and correctness checking.”
Refactoring test code (2001, methodology): “Writing tests is usually supported by frameworks such as JUnit [3].”