The adoption of agile approaches has put an increased emphasis on testing, resulting in
extensive test suites. These suites include a large number of tests, in which developers …

Continuous integration (CI) systems automate the compilation, building, and testing of
software. Despite CI rising as a big success story in automated software engineering, it has …

Performance is one of the important aspects of software quality. Performance issues exist
widely in software systems, and the process of fixing the performance issues is an essential …

Automatic static analysis tools (ASATs) are instruments that support code quality
assessment by automatically detecting defects and design issues. Despite their popularity …

Continuous Integration (CI) has become a best practice of modern software development.
Yet, at present, we have a shortfall of insight into the testing practices that are common in CI …

The research community in Software Engineering and Software Testing in particular builds
many of its contributions on a set of mutually shared expectations. Despite the fact that they …

Software testing is one of the key activities to achieve software quality in practice. Despite its
importance, however, we have a remarkable lack of knowledge on how developers test in …

Automatic static analysis tools (ASATs) are tools that support automatic code quality
evaluation of software systems with the aim of (i) avoiding and/or removing bugs and (ii) …

Notice of Retraction: Does Refactoring of Test Smells Induce Fixing Flaky Tests? Page 1
Document Retracted from IEEE Xplore® It was recommended and agreed upon by the authors …

Debugging is an inevitable activity in most software projects, often difficult and more time-
consuming than expected, giving it the nickname the" dirty little secret of computer science." …