DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18650772
title: Results of the 8th Intl. Competition on Software Testing (Test-Comp 2026)

description: Test-Comp 2026


Competition Results

This file describes the contents of an archive of the 8th Competition on Software Testing (Test-Comp 2026). https://test-comp.sosy-lab.org/2026/

The competition was organized by Dirk Beyer, LMU Munich, Germany. More information is available in the following article: Dirk Beyer. Evaluating Tools for Automatic Software Testing (Report on Test-Comp 2026). In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE 2026, Turin, Italy, April 11–16), 2026. Springer.

Copyright (C) 2026 Dirk Beyer https://www.sosy-lab.org/people/beyer/

SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0 https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html

To browse the competition results with a web browser, there are two options:



start a local web server using php -S localhost:8000 in order to view the data in this archive, or

browse https://test-comp.sosy-lab.org/2026/results/ in order to view the data on the Test-Comp web page.


Contents



index.html: directs to the overview web page

LICENSE-results.txt: specifies the license

README-results.txt: this file

results-validated/: results of validation runs

results-verified/: results of test-generation runs and aggregated results


The folder results-validated/ contains the results from validation runs:



*.results.txt: TXT results from BenchExec

*.xml.bz2: XML results from BenchExec

*.logfiles.zip: output from tools

*.json.gz: mapping from files names to SHA 256 hashes for the file content


The folder results-verified/ contains the results from test-generation runs and aggregated results:





index.html: overview web page with rankings and score table




design.css: HTML style definitions




*.results.txt: TXT results from BenchExec




*.xml.bz2: XML results from BenchExec




*.fixed.xml.bz2: XML results from BenchExec, status adjusted according to the validation results




*.csv: CSV results




*.fixed.csv: CSV results, status adjusted according to the validation results




*.logfiles.zip: output from tools




*.json.gz: mapping from files names to SHA 256 hashes for the file content




*.xml.bz2.table.html: HTML views on the detailed results data as generated by BenchExec’s table generator




<tester>*.table.html: HTML views of the full benchmark set (all categories) for each tester




META_*.table.html: HTML views of the benchmark set for each meta category for each tester, and over all testers




<category>*.table.html: HTML views of the benchmark set for each category over all testers




*.xml: XML table definitions for the above tables




results-per-tool.php: List of results for each tool for review process in pre-run phase




<tester>.list.html: List of results for a tool in HTML format with links




quantilePlot-*: score-based quantile plots as visualization of the results




quantilePlotShow.gp: example Gnuplot script to generate a plot




score*: accumulated score results in various formats



The hashes of the file names (in the files *.json.gz) are useful for



validating the exact contents of a file and

accessing the files from the witness store.


Related Archives

Overview of archives from Test-Comp 2026 that are available at Zenodo:



https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18650733 Test Suites from Test-Generation Tools (Test-Comp 2026). Store of coverage witnesses (containing the generated test suites)

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18650756 FM-Tools Release 2.3: Data Set of Metadata about Tools for Formal Methods (SV-COMP 2026, Test-Comp 2026). Metadata snapshot of the evaluated tools (DOIs, options, etc.)

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18650772 Results of the 8th Intl. Competition on Software Testing (Test-Comp 2026). Results (XML result files, log files, file mappings, HTML tables)

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18650775 SV-Benchmarks: Benchmark Set for Software Verification and Testing (SV-COMP 2026, Test-Comp 2026). Test-generation tasks, version testcomp26

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18455156 sosy-lab/benchexec: Release 3.34 Benchmarking framework

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18650812 FM-Weck: Release 1.6.0 Containerized execution and continuous testing of formal-methods tools


All benchmarks were executed for Test-Comp 2026 https://test-comp.sosy-lab.org/2026/ by Dirk Beyer, LMU Munich, based on the following components:



https://gitlab.com/sosy-lab/benchmarking/fm-tools 2.3

https://gitlab.com/sosy-lab/benchmarking/sv-benchmarks testcomp26

https://gitlab.com/sosy-lab/test-comp/bench-defs testcomp26

https://gitlab.com/sosy-lab/software/benchexec 3.34

https://gitlab.com/sosy-lab/software/benchcloud 1.5.0

https://gitlab.com/sosy-lab/software/fm-weck 1.6.0

https://gitlab.com/sosy-lab/benchmarking/competition-scripts testcomp26

https://gitlab.com/sosy-lab/test-comp/test-format testcomp26


Contact

Feel free to contact me in case of questions: https://www.sosy-lab.org/people/beyer/