Tests that fail inconsistently, without changes to the code under test, are described as flaky.
Flaky tests do not give a clear indication of the presence of software bugs and thus limit the …

Regression testing is a crucial part of software development. It checks that software changes
do not break existing functionality. An important assumption of regression testing is that test …

Developers often run tests to check that their latest changes to a code repository did not
break any previously working functionality. Ideally, any new test failures would indicate …

Regression testing is increasingly important with the wide use of continuous integration. A
desirable requirement for regression testing is that a test failure reliably indicates a problem …

Flaky tests are software tests that exhibit a seemingly random outcome (pass or fail) despite
exercising unchanged code. In this work, we examine the perceptions of software …

In today's agile world, developers often rely on continuous integration pipelines to help build
and validate their changes by executing tests in an efficient manner. One of the significant …

During regression testing, developers rely on the pass or fail outcomes of tests to check
whether changes broke existing functionality. Thus, flaky tests, which nondeterministically …

Regression testing provides important pass or fail signals that developers use to make
decisions after code changes. However, flaky tests, which pass or fail even when the code …

In a test suite, all the test cases should be independent: no test should affect any other test's
result, and running the tests in any order should produce the same test results. Techniques …

Notice of Retraction: Does Refactoring of Test Smells Induce Fixing Flaky Tests? Page 1
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