An empirical evaluation of RAIDE: A semi-automated approach for test smells detection and refactoring

R Santana, L Martins, T Virgínio, L Rocha… - Science of Computer …, 2024 - Elsevier
Effective test code refactoring is essential for maintaining the quality and efficiency of
software development. Automated support for test code refactoring can significantly enhance …

Test smell refactoring revisited: What can internal quality attributes and developers' experience tell us?

H Damasceno, C Bezerra, D Campos… - Journal of Software …, 2023 - journals-sol.sbc.org.br
Test smells represent a set of poorly designed tests, which can harm test code
maintainability. Although fundamental steps to understand test smells have been taken …

Test smell: A parasitic energy consumer in software testing

MRH Misu, J Li, A Bhattiprolu, Y Liu… - Information and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Context: Traditionally, energy efficiency research has focused on reducing energy
consumption at the hardware level and, more recently, in the design and coding phases of …

A Proposal and Assessment of an Improved Heuristic for the Eager Test Smell Detection

HKV Tran, N Ali, M Unterkalmsteiner… - Available at SSRN … - papers.ssrn.com
Context: The evidence for the prevalence of test smells at the unit testing level has relied on
the accuracy of detection tools, which have seen intense research in the last two decades …