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Towards Automatic Generation of Amplified Regression Test Oracles
Alejandra Duque-Torres, Claus Klammer, Dietmar Pfahl +2
Regression testing is crucial in ensuring that pure code refactoring does not adversely affect existing software functionality, but it can be expensive, accounting for half the cos…
Exploring a Test Data-Driven Method for Selecting and Constraining Metamorphic Relations
Alejandra Duque-Torres, Dietmar Pfahl, Claus Klammer +1
Identifying and selecting high-quality Metamorphic Relations (MRs) is a challenge in Metamorphic Testing (MT). While some techniques for automatically selecting MRs have been propo…
Analysis of Library Dependency Networks of Package Managers Used in iOS Development
Kristiina Rahkema, Dietmar Pfahl, Rudolf Ramler
Reusing existing solutions in the form of third-party libraries is common practice when writing software. Package managers are used to manage dependencies to third-party libraries…
Vulnerability Propagation in Package Managers Used in iOS Development
Kristiina Rahkema, Dietmar Pfahl
Although using third-party libraries is common practice when writing software, vulnerabilities may be found even in well-known libraries. Detected vulnerabilities are often fixed q…
Bug or not Bug? Analysing the Reasons Behind Metamorphic Relation Violations
Alejandra Duque-Torres, Dietmar Pfahl, Claus Klammer +1
Metamorphic Testing (MT) is a testing technique that can effectively alleviate the oracle problem. MT uses Metamorphic Relations (MRs) to determine if a test case passes or fails.…
An Exploratory Study on the Evidence of Hackathons' Role in Solving OSS Newcomers' Challenges
Ahmed Samir Imam Mahmoud, Alexander Nolte, Dietmar Pfahl
Background: OSS projects face various challenges. One major challenge is to onboard and integrate newcomers to the project. Aim: We aim to understand and discuss the challenges new…