Understanding flaky tests: The developer's perspective

M Eck, F Palomba, M Castelluccio… - Proceedings of the 2019 …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
developers on their experience with flaky tests. We investigate the frequency of flaky tests
in practice and how problematic flaky tests are from the developer’s perspective. We ask: …

What predicts software developers' productivity?

E Murphy-Hill, C Jaspan, C Sadowski… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Because we are running 48 statistical tests per company and thus are likely to discover a
handful of relationships simply by chance, we correct such p-values on a per-company basis …

'Think secure from the beginning' A Survey with Software Developers

H Assal, S Chiasson - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI conference on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
developers currently employed in North America who work on various types of software
applications. Whereas developers are often … performed pilot-testing with 11 developers to identify …

How do developers utilize source code from stack overflow?

Y Wu, S Wang, CP Bezemer, K Inoue - Empirical Software Engineering, 2019 - Springer
… For instance, developers suggest to improve the code quality by adding an integrated
validator that can test source code online, and an outdated code detection mechanism. Our …

How explicit feature traces did not impact developers' memory

J Krüger, G Çalıklı, T Berger… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Due to the small number of participants, we cannot conduct statistical tests, since these
would be unreliable. Moreover, we cannot observe a systematic difference between the code …

Root causing flaky tests in a large-scale industrial setting

W Lam, P Godefroid, S Nath, A Santhiar… - … on Software Testing …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
… of flaky tests on developers, we describe our end-to-end framework that helps identify flaky
tests and … of flaky tests on these five projects, and how often developers are burdened by flaky …

iDFlakies: A framework for detecting and partially classifying flaky tests

W Lam, R Oei, A Shi, D Marinov… - … on software testing …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… We also find that developers who run their tests only in the Maven-specified, original
order have a low overall probability of producing a failing round, 2.7%. Of particular interest …

Can refactoring be self-affirmed? an exploratory study on how developers document their refactoring activities in commit messages

E AlOmar, MW Mkaouer, A Ouni - 2019 IEEE/ACM 3rd …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… For both tests, we notice that developers tend to label more refactorings applied to code
elements with higher granularity level, ie, at the package level. Conversely, refactorings that …

Going big: a large-scale study on what big data developers ask

M Bagherzadeh, R Khatchadourian - Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
… Hadoop software from a test environment to the real world environment. They assist by
detecting anomalies between executions of the software in the test and real world environments …

On learning meaningful assert statements for unit test cases

C Watson, M Tufano, K Moran, G Bavota… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
… To help advance techniques that aid developers in writing or generating unit tests, we
designed A , an approach for automatically generating syntactically and semantically correct unit …