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Automated Testing of Task-based Chatbots: How Far Are We?
Diego Clerissi, Elena Masserini, Daniela Micucci +1
Task-based chatbots are software, typically embedded in real-world applications, that assist users in completing tasks through a conversational interface. As chatbots are gaining p…
Assessing Task-based Chatbots: Snapshot and Curated Datasets for Dialogflow
Elena Masserini, Diego Clerissi, Daniela Micucci +1
In recent years, chatbots have gained widespread adoption thanks to their ability to assist users at any time and across diverse domains. However, the lack of large-scale curated d…
Towards Multi-Platform Mutation Testing of Task-based Chatbots
Diego Clerissi, Elena Masserini, Daniela Micucci +1
Chatbots, also known as conversational agents, have become ubiquitous, offering services for a multitude of domains. Unlike general-purpose chatbots, task-based chatbots are softwa…
Bug Whispering: Towards Audio Bug Reporting
Elena Masserini, Daniela Micucci, Leonardo Mariani
Bug reporting is a key feature of mobile applications, as it enables developers to collect information about faults that escaped testing and thus affected end-users. This paper exp…
Towards the Assessment of Task-based Chatbots: From the TOFU-R Snapshot to the BRASATO Curated Dataset
Elena Masserini, Diego Clerissi, Daniela Micucci +2
Task-based chatbots are increasingly being used to deliver real services, yet assessing their reliability, security, and robustness remains underexplored, also due to the lack of l…
Anonymizing Test Data in Android: Does It Hurt?
Elena Masserini, Davide Ginelli, Daniela Micucci +2
Failure data collected from the field (e.g., failure traces, bug reports, and memory dumps) represent an invaluable source of information for developers who need to reproduce and a…