AI Tool Helps Coders Accelerate Testing

There is relief for Java developers bogged down with necessary but tedious testing of individual units of source code: an automated platform that automatically generates regression unit tests for Java applications. Diffblue, an Oxford University spin out, recently released a community edition of its enterprise Cover platform used by early customers such as Amazon Web Services (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS). The AI-based system applies software verification and synthesis technologies to reflect the current behavior of an application. The unsupervised learning framework can then be used to find regressions in new code commits, producing a unit test of individual source code as much as 100 times faster that humans. At the same time, market trackers predict that enterprise demand for application developers will grow five-fold through 2021.