A code generation model generates code by taking a prompt from a code comment, existing
code, or a combination of both. Although code generation models (eg, GitHub Copilot) are …

The adoption of agile approaches has put an increased emphasis on testing, resulting in
extensive test suites. These suites include a large number of tests, in which developers …

Test smells are sub-optimal design choices in the implementation of test code. As reported
by recent studies, their presence might not only negatively affect the comprehension of test …

Many software production processes advocate rigorous development testing alongside
functional code writing, which implies that both test code and production code should co …

Notice of Retraction: Does Refactoring of Test Smells Induce Fixing Flaky Tests? Page 1
Document Retracted from IEEE Xplore® It was recommended and agreed upon by the authors …

The readability of software code is a key success criterion for understanding and
maintaining software systems and tests. In industry practice, a limited number of guidelines …

Automated testing is a basic principle of agile development. Its benefits include early defect
detection, defect causelocalization and removal of fear to apply changes to the code …

Automated test generation tools have been widely investigated with the goal of reducing the
cost of testing activities. However, generated tests have been shown not to help developers …

Refactoring aims at improving the internal structure of a software system without changing its
external behavior. Previous studies empirically assessed, on the one hand, the benefits of …

When identifying the origin of software bugs, many studies assume that “a bug was
introduced by the lines of code that were modified to fix it”. However, this assumption does …