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Machine Learning-Based Test Smell Detection
Valeria Pontillo, Dario Amoroso d'Aragona, Fabiano Pecorelli +3
Context: Test smells are symptoms of sub-optimal design choices adopted when developing test cases. Previous studies have proved their harmfulness for test code maintainability and…
On the Adoption and Effects of Source Code Reuse on Defect Proneness and Maintenance Effort
Giammaria Giordano, Gerardo Festa, Gemma Catolino +3
Context. Software reusability mechanisms, like inheritance and delegation in Object-Oriented programming, are widely recognized as key instruments of software design. These are use…
Toward Granular Automatic Unit Test Case Generation
Fabiano Pecorelli, Giovanni Grano, Fabio Palomba +2
Unit testing verifies the presence of faults in individual software components. Previous research has been targeting the automatic generation of unit tests through the adoption of…
Software Engineering for Quantum Programming: How Far Are We?
Manuel De Stefano, Fabiano Pecorelli, Dario Di Nucci +2
Quantum computing is no longer only a scientific interest but is rapidly becoming an industrially available technology that can potentially overcome the limits of classical computa…