8 papers
Automated Support for Unit Test Generation: A Tutorial Book Chapter
Afonso Fontes, Gregory Gay, Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto +1
Unit testing is a stage of testing where the smallest segment of code that can be tested in isolation from the rest of the system - often a class - is tested. Unit tests are typica…
Using mutation testing to measure behavioural test diversity
Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto, Felix Dobslaw, Robert Feldt
Diversity has been proposed as a key criterion to improve testing effectiveness and efficiency.It can be used to optimise large test repositories but also to visualise test mainten…
An Empirical Study of Bots in Software Development -- Characteristics and Challenges from a Practitioner's Perspective
Linda Erlenhov, Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto, Philipp Leitner
Software engineering bots - automated tools that handle tedious tasks - are increasingly used by industrial and open source projects to improve developer productivity. Current rese…
Boundary Value Exploration for Software Analysis
Felix Dobslaw, Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto, Robert Feldt
For software to be reliable and resilient, it is widely accepted that tests must be created and maintained alongside the software itself. One safeguard from vulnerabilities and fai…
Estimating Return on Investment for GUI Test Automation Tools
Felix Dobslaw, Robert Feldt, David Michaelsson +3
Automated graphical user interface (GUI) tests can reduce manual testing activities and increase test frequency. This motivates the conversion of manual test cases into automated G…
Visualizing test diversity to support test optimisation
Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto, Robert Feldt, Linda Erlenhov +1
Diversity has been used as an effective criteria to optimise test suites for cost-effective testing. Particularly, diversity-based (alternatively referred to as similarity-based) t…