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Software testing is aimed to improve the delivered reliability of the users. Delivered reliability is the reliability of using the software after it is delivered to the users. Usually the software consists of many modules. Thus, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Ping Cao , Zhao Dong , Ke Liu , Kai-Yuan Cai

Testing networked systems is challenging. The client or server side cannot be tested by itself. We present a solution using tool "Modbat" that generates test cases for Java's network library java.nio, where we test both blocking and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Cyrille Artho , Guillaume Rousset

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

Test-based automated program repair has been a prolific field of research in software engineering in the last decade. Many approaches have indeed been proposed, which leverage test suites as a weak, but affordable, approximation to program…

Search-Based Software Testing (SBST) is a well-established approach for automated unit test generation, yet it often suffers from premature convergence and limited diversity in the generated test suites. Recently, Large Language Models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Lior Broide , Roni Stern , Argaman Mordoch

Automated test techniques usually generate unit tests with higher code coverage than manual tests. However, the readability of automated tests is crucial for code comprehension and maintenance. The readability of unit tests involves many…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zhichao Zhou , Yutian Tang , Yun Lin , Jingzhu He

This paper discusses a model-based approach to testing as a vital part of software development. It argues that an approach using models as central development artifact needs to be added to the portfolio of software engineering techniques,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-24 Bernhard Rumpe

The high cost of the test can be dramatically reduced, provided that the coverability as an inherent feature of the code under test is predictable. This article offers a machine learning model to predict the extent to which the test could…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Morteza Zakeri-Nasrabadi , Saeed Parsa

This paper presents a novel zero-shot learning approach towards personalized speech enhancement through the use of a sparsely active ensemble model. Optimizing speech denoising systems towards a particular test-time speaker can improve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Aswin Sivaraman , Minje Kim

Background: Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is an emerging programming paradigm whose focus is about improving modularity, with an emphasis on the modularization of crosscutting concerns. Objective: The goal of this paper is to assess the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-10-03 Arlindo Lima , Miguel Goulão , Miguel Pessoa Monteiro

Unit testing is critical to the software development process, ensuring the correctness of basic programming units in a program (e.g., a method). Search-based software testing (SBST) is an automated approach to generating test cases. SBST…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Zhichao Zhou , Yuming Zhou , Chunrong Fang , Zhenyu Chen , Xiapu Luo , Jingzhu He , Yutian Tang

Designing and analysis of test cases is a challenging tasks for tester roles especially those who are related to test the structure of program. Recently, Programmers are showing valuable trend towards the implementation of recursive modules…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-08-28 Muhammad Javed , Bashir Ahmad , Zaffar Abbas , Allah Nawaz , Muhammad Ali Abid , Ihsan Ullah

Test suites are inherently imperfect, and testers can always enrich a suite with new test cases that improve its quality and, consequently, the reliability of the target software system. However, finding test cases that explore execution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ketai Qiu , Luca Di Grazia , Leonardo Mariani , Mauro Pezzè

Open Source Software (OSS) Projects are gaining popularity these days, and they become alternatives in building software system. Despite many failures in these projects, there are some success stories with one of the identified success…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Andi Wahju Rahardjo Emanuel , Retantyo Wardoyo , Jazi Eko Istiyanto , Khabib Mustofa

Augmenting test suites with test cases that reflect the actual usage of the software system is extremely important to sustain the quality of long lasting software systems. In this paper, we propose E-Test, an approach that incrementally…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Ketai Qiu

Unit testing is an essential yet frequently arduous task. Various automated unit test generation tools have been introduced to mitigate this challenge. Notably, methods based on large language models (LLMs) have garnered considerable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Yinghao Chen , Zehao Hu , Chen Zhi , Junxiao Han , Shuiguang Deng , Jianwei Yin

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

Assessing the effectiveness of REST API tests in black-box settings can be challenging due to the lack of access to source code coverage metrics and polyglot tech stack. We propose three metrics for capturing average, minimum, and maximum…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Nana Reinikainen , Mika Mäntylä , Yuqing Wang

Unit testing is an essential but resource-intensive step in software development, ensuring individual code units function correctly. This paper introduces AgoneTest, an automated evaluation framework for Large Language Model-generated (LLM)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Andrea Lops , Fedelucio Narducci , Azzurra Ragone , Michelantonio Trizio , Claudio Bartolini

Mutation testing is used to evaluate the effectiveness of test suites. In recent years, a promising variation called extreme mutation testing emerged that is computationally less expensive. It identifies methods where their functionality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Maik Betka , Stefan Wagner