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Imitation learning has been widely applied to various autonomous systems thanks to recent development in interactive algorithms that address covariate shift and compounding errors induced by traditional approaches like behavior cloning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Xiatao Sun , Shuo Yang , Mingyan Zhou , Kunpeng Liu , Rahul Mangharam

Software testing is an important phase in the software development life-cycle because it helps in identifying bugs in a software system before it is shipped into the hand of its end users. There are numerous studies on how developers test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Luis Cruz , Rui Abreu , David Lo

As part of formative and summative assessments in programming courses, students work on developing programming artifacts following a given specification. These artifacts are evaluated by the teachers. At the end of this evaluation, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Manuel Maarek , Léon McGregor

This study explores the benefits and challenges of integrating Artificial Intelligence with Agile software development methodologies, focusing on improving continuous integration and delivery. A systematic literature review and longitudinal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel

We study ratio metrics in A/B testing at the presence of correlation among observations coming from the same user and provides practical guidance especially when two metrics contradict each other. We propose new estimating methods to…

Applications · Statistics 2020-07-24 Keyu Nie , Yinfei Kong , Ted Tao Yuan , Pauline Berry Burke

This paper describes Meta's TestGen-LLM tool, which uses LLMs to automatically improve existing human-written tests. TestGen-LLM verifies that its generated test classes successfully clear a set of filters that assure measurable improvement…

Big Data is reforming many industrial domains by providing decision support through analyzing large data volumes. Big Data testing aims to ensure that Big Data systems run smoothly and error-free while maintaining the performance and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Iram Arshad , Saeed Hamood Alsamhi , Wasif Afzal

Various proxy metrics for test quality have been defined in order to guide developers when writing tests. Code coverage is particularly well established in practice, even though the question of how coverage relates to test quality is a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Goran Petrović , Marko Ivanković , Gordon Fraser , René Just

To improve the reliability and efficiency of Web Software, the Testing Team should be creative and innovative. The experience and intuition of Tester also matters a lot and most often the destructive nature of Tester brings reliable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Kamran Ali , Xia Xiaoling

Automated software testing involves the execution of test scripts by a machine instead of being manually run. This significantly reduces the amount of manual time & effort needed and thus is of great interest to the software testing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Anurag Dwarakanath , Neville Dubash , Sanjay Podder

Experimentation platforms in industry must often deal with customer trust issues. Platforms must prove the validity of their claims as well as catch issues that arise. As a central quantity estimated by experimentation platforms, the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-21 Kedar Karhadkar , Jack Klys , Daniel Ting , Artem Vorozhtsov , Houssam Nassif

Researchers are increasingly subjecting artificial intelligence systems to psychological testing. But to rigorously compare their cognitive capacities with humans and other animals, we must avoid both over- and under-stating our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Konstantinos Voudouris , Lucy G. Cheke , Eric Schulz

Meta-learning empowers artificial intelligence to increase its efficiency by learning how to learn. Unlocking this potential involves overcoming a challenging meta-optimisation problem. We propose an algorithm that tackles this problem by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Sebastian Flennerhag , Yannick Schroecker , Tom Zahavy , Hado van Hasselt , David Silver , Satinder Singh

Email communication between instructors and students is ubiquitous, and it could be valuable to explore ways of testing out how to make email messages more impactful. This paper explores the design space of using emails to get students to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Angela Zavaleta-Bernuy , Ziwen Han , Hammad Shaikh , Qi Yin Zheng , Lisa-Angelique Lim , Anna Rafferty , Andrew Petersen , Joseph Jay Williams

Large-scale randomized experiments, sometimes called A/B tests, are increasingly prevalent in many industries. Though such experiments are often analyzed via frequentist $t$-tests, arguably such analyses are deficient: $p$-values are hard…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-27 F. Richard Guo , James McQueen , Thomas S. Richardson

I would like to share recommendations on how to do performance benchmarks for the purpose of computer science research evaluation. Research in my field (programming language research) often involves performance considerations, but it is…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Gabriel Scherer

This paper examines the use of Monte Carlo simulations to understand statistical concepts in A/B testing and Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs). We discuss the applicability of simulations in understanding false positive rates and estimate…

Applications · Statistics 2024-11-12 Márton Trencséni

Automated testing tools typically create test cases that are different from what human testers create. This often makes the tools less effective, the created tests harder to understand, and thus results in tools providing less support to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Eduard Enoiu , Robert Feldt

Inspired by the increasing use of AI to augment humans, researchers have studied human-AI systems involving different tasks, systems, and populations. Despite such a large body of work, we lack a broad conceptual understanding of when…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Michelle Vaccaro , Abdullah Almaatouq , Thomas Malone

Online controlled experiments (A/B tests) are fundamental to data-driven decision-making in the digital economy. However, their real-world application is frequently compromised by two critical shortcomings: the use of statistically flawed…

Applications · Statistics 2025-09-30 Srijesh Pillai , Rajesh Kumar Chandrawat