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Developers spend a large portion of their time and effort on comprehending source code. While many studies have investigated how developers approach these comprehension tasks and what factors influence their success, less is known about how…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Chak Shun Yu , Christoph Treude , Maurício Aniche

Software testing is one of the very important Quality Assurance (QA) components. A lot of researchers deal with the testing process in terms of tester motivation and how tests should or should not be written. However, it is not known from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Matej Madeja , Jaroslav Porubän , Michaela Bačíková , Matúš Sulír , Ján Juhár , Sergej Chodarev , Filip Gurbáľ

In this paper, we aim at the automated unit coverage-based testing for embedded software. To achieve the goal, by analyzing the industrial requirements and our previous work on automated unit testing tool CAUT, we rebuild a new tool,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Chengyu Zhang , Yichen Yan , Hanru Zhou , Yinbo Yao , Ke Wu , Ting Su , Weikai Miao , Geguang Pu

Most businesses rely on a significant stack of software to perform their daily operations. This software is business-critical as defects in this software have major impacts on revenue and customer satisfaction. The primary means for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Peter Schrammel

Software is used in critical applications in our day-to-day life and it is important to ensure its correctness. One popular approach to assess correctness is to evaluate software on tests. If a test fails, it indicates a fault in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Max Hort , Leon Moonen

Flaky tests have gained attention from the research community in recent years and with good reason. These tests lead to wasted time and resources, and they reduce the reliability of the test suites and build systems they affect. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Alan Romano , Zihe Song , Sampath Grandhi , Wei Yang , Weihang Wang

Testing plays an important role in securing the success of a software development project. Prior studies have demonstrated beneficial effects of applying acceptance testing within a Behavioural-Driven Development method. In this research,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Marina Filipovic , Fabian Gilson

Formal verification provides mathematical guarantees that a software is correct. Design-level verification tools ensure software specifications are correct, but they do not expose defects in actual implementations. For this purpose,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Paschal C. Amusuo , Parth V. Patil , Owen Cochell , Taylor Le Lievre , James C. Davis

Unit testing is a vital part of the software development process and involves developers writing code to verify or assert production code. Furthermore, to help comprehend the test case and troubleshoot issues, developers have the option to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Taryn Takebayashi , Anthony Peruma , Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer , Christian D. Newman

Unit testing is an essential part of the software development process, which helps to identify issues with source code in early stages of development and prevent regressions. Machine learning has emerged as viable approach to help software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Michele Tufano , Shao Kun Deng , Neel Sundaresan , Alexey Svyatkovskiy

A key aspect of ensuring the quality of a software system is the practice of unit testing. Through unit tests, developers verify the correctness of production source code, thereby verifying the system's intended behavior under test.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Anthony Peruma , Christian D. Newman

Test Impact Analysis is an approach to obtain a subset of tests impacted by code changes. This approach is mainly applied to unit testing where the link between the code and its associated tests is easy to obtain. On the integration level,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Muzammil Shahbaz

Code review is a widely-used practice in software development companies to identify defects. Hence, code review has been included in many software engineering curricula at universities worldwide. However, teaching code review is still a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Chun Yong Chong , Patanamon Thongtanunam , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn

We gained insight into ideas and beliefs on testing of students who finished an introductory course on programming without any formal education on testing. We asked students to fill in a small survey, to do four exercises and to fill in a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Lex Bijlsma , Niels Doorn , Harrie Passier , Harold Pootjes , Sylvia Stuurman

Unit tests are an important artifact that supports the software development process in several ways. For example, when a test fails, its name can provide the first step towards understanding the purpose of the test. Unfortunately, unit…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Jianwei Wu , James Clause

In recent years, software engineers have explored ways to assist quantum software programmers. Our goal in this paper is to continue this exploration and see if quantum software programmers deal with some problems plaguing classical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Lei Zhang , Mahsa Radnejad , Andriy Miranskyy

Critical embedded systems (CES) have become ubiquitous in whether medical, automotive, or industrial. Software failures in such systems are potentially disastrous and could lead to serious consequences not only financially but also…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Hafsa Cheddadi , Saad Motahhir , Abdelaziz El Ghzizal

Effective software testing is critical for producing reliable and secure software, yet many computer science students struggle to master the foundational concepts required to construct comprehensive test suites. While automated feedback…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Shiza Andleeb , Teo Mendoza , Lucas Cordova , Gursimran Walia , Jeffrey C. Carver

Software testing is sometimes plagued with intermittently failing tests and finding the root causes of such failing tests is often difficult. This problem has been widely studied at the unit testing level for open source software, but there…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Per Erik Strandberg , Thomas J Ostrand , Elaine J Weyuker , Wasif Afzal , Daniel Sundmark

A unit test is a method for verifying the accuracy and the proper functioning of a portion of a program. This work consists to study the relation and the approaches to test Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) programs and to propose a…

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