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 …

Automatic static analysis tools (ASATs) are instruments that support code quality
assessment by automatically detecting defects and design issues. Despite their popularity …

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 …

A flaky test is a test that may lead to different results in different runs on a single code under
test without any change in the test code. Test flakiness is a noxious phenomenon that slows …

Modern version control systems, eg, GitHub, include bug tracking mechanisms that
developers can use to highlight the presence of bugs. This is done by means of bug reports …

What is a good workday for a software developer? What is a typical workday? We seek to
answer these two questions to learn how to make good days typical. Concretely, answering …

Debugging is an inevitable activity in most software projects, often difficult and more time-
consuming than expected, giving it the nickname the" dirty little secret of computer science." …

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 …

Continuous Integration (CI) is a popular practice in modern software engineering.
Unfortunately, it is also a high-cost practice—Google and Mozilla estimate their CI systems …

Context: Flaky tests plague regression testing in Continuous Integration environments by
slowing down change releases and wasting testing time and effort. Despite the growing …