First international competition on software testing

Abstract Tool competitions are a special form of comparative evaluation, where each tool has team developers or supporters associated that makes sure the is properly configured to show its best possible performance. In several research areas, have been driving force for development mature tools represent state art in their field. This paper describes and reports results 1 $$^{\text {st}}$$ st International Competition on Software Testing (Test-Comp 2019), evaluation automatic software test generation. Test-Comp 2019 was presented as part TOOLympics 2019, satellite event conference TACAS. Nine generators were evaluated 2 356 test-generation tasks. There two specifications, one generating covers particular function call suite tries cover branches program.