In this talk, Lisa Waugh will discuss the challenges in delivering high-quality software due to manual testing and the need for automated unit test generation. Despite the development of techniques and tools to automatically generate unit tests, the generated tests often suffer from poor readability and lack resemblance to developer-written tests. To address these issues, Lisa's team has investigated the use of large language models (LLMs) to improve the readability and usability of automatically generated tests. They have created a pipeline to guide LLMs in generating high-coverage,...
Lisa Waugh
Test Engineer
IBM
Lisa Waugh is a Software Development Engineer in Test, passionate about quality and innovation. She brings over 40 years of experience in information technology, with concentration on DevOps, Continuous Testing, and Performance Testing. She has a diverse background in multi-platform hardware and software technology and extensive technical experience in cloud, workstation, mainframe, and client server environments. She is primarily involved with automating continuous testing pipelines to include performance, load, and system testing, identification of potential performance issues, and performance tuning of cloud microservices. She is currently in the Developer Experience group in the CIO responsible for defining and assisting in the implementation of automated testing tools.