Test smells are defined as sub-optimal design choices developers make when
implementing test cases. Hence, similar to code smells, the research community has …

The test code, just like production source code, is subject to bad design and programming
practices, also known as smells. The presence of test smells in a software project may affect …

An essential activity of software maintenance is the refactoring of source code. Refactoring
operations enable developers to take necessary actions to correct bad programming …

Test smells are symptoms in the test code that indicate possible design or implementation
problems. Their presence, along with their harmfulness, has already been demonstrated by …

With an increasing emphasis on unit testing in computer science curricula, we examined
students' work on testing assignments to investigate their adoption of test smells---practices …

A key aspect of ensuring the quality of a software system is the practice of unit testing.
Through unit tests, developers verify the correctness of production source code, thereby …

Test smells are signs in the test code that can indicate potential design or implementation
issues. Despite being the subject of extensive academic literature, several questions about …

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 …