7 papers
How Far Are We from Detecting Flaky Tests? On the Limits of Code-Based Detection
Ãmer Oktay Gültekin, Alexander Berndt, Jonathan Bell +2
Flaky tests pass and fail on the same code version, weakening the signal of test results and disrupting continuous integration (CI) pipelines. Code-based flakiness detectors report…
The Influence of Code Comments on the Perceived Helpfulness of Stack Overflow Posts
Kathrin Figl, Maria Kirchner, Sebastian Baltes +1
Question-and-answer platforms such as Stack Overflow are an important way for software developers to share and retrieve knowledge. However, reusing poorly understood code can lead…
Context Rot in AI-Assisted Software Development: Repurposing Documentation Consistency for AI Configuration Artifacts
Christoph Treude, Sebastian Baltes
Developers increasingly provide AI coding assistants with persistent context through configuration files such as CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, and .cursorrules. These files describe code e…
Can We Classify Flaky Tests Using Only Test Code? An LLM-Based Empirical Study
Alexander Berndt, Vekil Bekmyradov, Rainer Gemulla +3
Flaky tests yield inconsistent results when they are repeatedly executed on the same code revision. They interfere with automated quality assurance of code changes and hinder effic…
Flaky Tests in a Large Industrial Database Management System: An Empirical Study of Fixed Issue Reports for SAP HANA
Alexander Berndt, Thomas Bach, Sebastian Baltes
Flaky tests yield different results when executed multiple times for the same version of the source code. Thus, they provide an ambiguous signal about the quality of the code and i…
How Does Cognitive Capability and Personality Influence Problem Solving in Coding Interview Puzzles?
Dulaji Hidellaarachchi, Sebastian Baltes, John Grundy
Software engineering involves cognitively demanding activities impacted by individual differences. We investigate how cognitive capability and personality traits are associated wit…