Acceptance testing is a validation activity performed to ensure the conformance of software
systems with respect to their functional requirements. In safety critical systems, it plays a …

Test suites should test exceptional behavior to detect faults in error-handling code. However,
manually-written test suites tend to neglect exceptional behavior. Automatically-generated …

One of the main challenges that developers face when testing their systems lies in
engineering test cases that are good enough to reveal bugs. And while our body of …

This paper presents an ensemble part-of-speech tagging approach for source code
identifiers. Ensemble tagging is a technique that uses machine-learning and the output from …

Maintaining unit test cases is important during the maintenance and evolution of a software
system. In particular, automatically documenting these unit test cases can ameliorate the …

During maintenance, developers often need to understand the purpose of a test. One of the
most potentially useful sources of information for understanding a test is its name. Ideally …

System goals are the statements that, in the context of software requirements specification,
capture how the software should behave. Many times, the understanding of stakeholders on …

Software engineering researchers and practitioners have pursued manners to reduce the
amount of time and effort required to develop code and increase productivity since the …

It is good practice to name test methods such that they are comprehensible to developers;
they must be written in such a way that their purpose and functionality are clear to those who …

Unit tests are an important artifact that supports the software development process in several
ways. For example, when a test fails, its name can provide the first step towards …