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The test suite is essential for fault detection during software development. First-order mutation coverage is an accurate metric to quantify the quality of the test suite. However, it is computationally expensive. Hence, the adoption of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Ali Parsai , Alessandro Murgia , Serge Demeyer

With the growing reliance on automated code completion tools in software development, the need for comprehensive evaluation benchmarks has become critical. Existing benchmarks focus more on code completion in function and class level by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Qinyun Wu , Chao Peng , Pengfei Gao , Ruida Hu , Haoyu Gan , Bo Jiang , Jinhe Tang , Zhiwen Deng , Zhanming Guan , Cuiyun Gao , Xia Liu , Ping Yang

Even when a system is proven to be correct with respect to a specification, there is still a question of how complete the specification is, and whether it really covers all the behaviors of the system. Coverage metrics attempt to check…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Hana Chockler , Joseph Y. Halpern , Orna Kupferman

Automated Driving Systems (ADSs) have the potential to make mobility services available and safe for all. A multi-pillar Safety Assessment Framework (SAF) has been proposed for the type-approval process of ADSs. The SAF requires that the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Erwin de Gelder , Maren Buermann , Olaf Op den Camp

Testing is the primary approach for detecting software defects. A major challenge faced by testers lies in crafting efficient test suites, able to detect a maximum number of bugs with manageable effort. To do so, they rely on coverage…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Michaël Marcozzi , Sébastien Bardin , Nikolai Kosmatov , Mike Papadakis , Virgile Prevosto , Loïc Correnson

Code coverage is a widely used metric for quantifying the extent to which program elements, such as statements or branches, are executed during testing. Calculating code coverage is resource-intensive, requiring code building and execution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Michele Tufano , Shubham Chandel , Anisha Agarwal , Neel Sundaresan , Colin Clement

With increased penetration of new technology in the distribution systems such as renewable energy resources, flexible resources, and information and communication technology, the distribution systems become more complex and dynamic. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-03 Stine Fleischer Myhre , Olav Bjarte Fosso , Poul Einar Heegaard , Oddbjørn Gjerde

Context: The quality of the test suites and the constituent test cases significantly impacts confidence in software testing. While research has identified several quality attributes of test cases and test suites, there is a need for a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Huynh Khanh Vi Tran , Nauman bin Ali , Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Jürgen Börstler , Panagiota Chatzipetrou

Test effectiveness refers to the capability of a test suite in exposing faults in software. It is crucial to be aware of factors that influence this capability. We aim at inferring the causal relationship between the two factors (i.e.,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Alireza Aghamohammadi , Seyed-Hassan Mirian-Hosseinabadi

With the rise of software-as-a-service and microservice architectures, RESTful APIs are now ubiquitous in mobile and web applications. A service can have tens or hundreds of API methods, making it a challenge for programmers to find the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Zheng Guo , David Cao , Davin Tjong , Jean Yang , Cole Schlesinger , Nadia Polikarpova

RECAST is an analysis reinterpretation framework; since analyses are often sensitive to a range of models, RECAST can be used to constrain the plethora of theoretical models without the significant investment required for a new analysis.…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-10-24 Alex Schuy , Lukas Heinrich , Kyle Cranmer , Shih-Chieh Hsu

In API testing, deriving logical constraints on API response bodies to be used as oracles is crucial for generating test cases and performing automated testing of RESTful APIs. However, existing approaches are restricted to dynamic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Hieu Huynh , Tri Le , Tu Nguyen , Viet Nguyen , Vu Nguyen , Tien N. Nguyen

We present RepoST, a scalable method to construct environments that provide execution feedback for repository-level code generation for both training and evaluation. Unlike existing works that aim to build entire repositories for execution,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yiqing Xie , Alex Xie , Divyanshu Sheth , Pengfei Liu , Daniel Fried , Carolyn Rose

The widespread adoption of the "Games as a Service" model necessitates frequent content updates, placing immense pressure on quality assurance. In response, automated game testing has been viewed as a promising solution to cope with this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Enhong Mu , Minami Yoda , Yan Zhang , Mingyue Zhang , Yutaka Matsuno , Jialong Li

Comparing test suite effectiveness metrics has always been a research hotspot. However, prior studies have different conclusions or even contradict each other for comparing different test suite effectiveness metrics. The problem we found…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Peng Zhang , Yang Wang , Xutong Liu , Yibiao Yang , Yanhui Li , Lin Chen , Ziyuan Wang , Chang-ai Sun , Yuming Zhou

Correctness is one of the more important criteria of qualitative software. However, it is often taught in isolation and most students consider it only as an afterthought. They also do not receive sufficient feedback on code quality and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Steffen Dick , Christoph Bockisch , Harrie Passier , Lex Bijlsma , Ruurd Kuiper

Cloud applications heavily rely on APIs to communicate with each other and exchange data. To ensure the reliability of cloud applications, cloud providers widely adopt API testing techniques. Unfortunately, existing API testing approaches…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jia Li , Jiacheng Shen , Yuxin Su , Michael R. Lyu

Metamorphic testing (MT) is a simple yet effective technique to alleviate the oracle problem in software testing. The underlying idea of MT is to test a software system by checking whether metamorphic relations (MRs) hold among multiple…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-31 An Fu , Chang-ai Sun , Jiaming Zhang , Huai Liu

Background: Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools purport to assist developers in detecting security issues in source code. These tools typically use rule-based approaches to scan source code for security vulnerabilities.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Roland Croft , Dominic Newlands , Ziyu Chen , M. Ali Babar

Evaluating Software testability can assist software managers in optimizing testing budgets and identifying opportunities for refactoring. In this paper, we abandon the traditional approach of pursuing testability measurements based on the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Luca Guglielmo , Andrea Riboni , Giovanni Denaro