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> mature tools exist—for statically typed languages, such as Java

Is that really a thing Java developers use? I am one, I remember doing a PoC with Jtest (now Parasoft) in 2008, and it was utterly useless, never come across any such since, I'd be genuinely interested to learn more (I'll go duckduckgo now).

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They probably refer to EvoSuite, which is/was mainly developed by one of the authors of the paper: https://www.evosuite.org/

Maybe it's a reference to the compiler or the plethora of internal and paid tools out there in the enterprise world.

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