Episode 51 “Unboxing Java 26 for Developers” [IJN]

This short report presents the 2025 edition of the Java Unit Testing Competition in which four test generation tools (EVOFUZZ, EVOSUITE, BBC, and RANDOOP) were benchmarked on a freshly selected set of 55 Java classes from six different open source projects. The benchmarking was based on structural metrics, such as code and mutation coverage of the classes under test, as well as on the readability of the generated test cases.

UBV observations of the X-ray binary system A0535+26/V725 Tau at the Crimean Station of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute in 1980-1998 are presented. Based on our and published data, we analyze the photometric history of the star from 1898.