3 papers
cs.SE2025
Systemic Flakiness: An Empirical Analysis of Co-Occurring Flaky Test Failures
Owain Parry, Gregory Kapfhammer, Michael Hilton +1
Flaky tests produce inconsistent outcomes without code changes, creating major challenges for software developers. An industrial case study reported that developers spend 1.28% of…
cs.LG2025
QAOA-PCA: Enhancing Efficiency in the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm via Principal Component Analysis
Owain Parry, Phil McMinn
The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a promising variational algorithm for solving combinatorial optimization problems on near-term devices. However, as the num…
cs.SE2025
Empirically Evaluating the Use of Bytecode for Diversity-Based Test Case Prioritisation
Islam T. Elgendy, Robert M. Hierons, Phil McMinn
Regression testing assures software correctness after changes but is resource-intensive. Test Case Prioritisation (TCP) mitigates this by ordering tests to maximise early fault det…