Constraint-Guided Unit Test Generation for Machine Learning Libraries

Machine learning (ML) libraries such as PyTorch and TensorFlow are essential for a wide range of modern applications. Ensuring the correctness of ML libraries through testing is crucial. However, ML APIs often impose strict input constraints involving complex data structures such as tensors. Automated test generation tools such as Pynguin are not aware of these constraints and often create non-compliant inputs. This leads to early test failures and limited code coverage. Prior work has investigated extracting constraints from official API documentation. In this paper, we present PynguinML, an approach that improves the Pynguin test generator to leverage these constraints to generate compliant inputs for ML APIs, enabling more thorough testing and higher code coverage. Our evaluation is based on 165 modules from PyTorch and TensorFlow, comparing PynguinML against Pynguin. The results show that PynguinML significantly improves test effectiveness, achieving up to 63.9 % higher code coverage.