When identifying the origin of software bugs, many studies assume that “a bug was
introduced by the lines of code that were modified to fix it”. However, this assumption does …

Automatically generating test cases for software has been an active research topic for many
years. While current tools can generate powerful regression or crash-reproducing test cases …

Regression testing is the activity performed by developers to check whether new
modifications have not introduced bugs. A crucial requirement to make regression testing …

Software is infamous for its poor quality and frequent occurrence of bugs. While there is no
doubt that thorough testing is an appropriate answer to ensure sufficient quality, the poor …

Testing is an integral part of the software development lifecycle, approached with varying
degrees of rigor by different process models. Agile process models recommend Test Driven …

Procedural knowledge describes actions and manipulations that are carried out to complete
programming tasks. An effective way to document procedural knowledge is programming …

To ensure the quality of software systems, software engineers can make use of a variety of
quality assurance approaches, for example, software testing, modern code review …

Automatic unit test generators such as EvoSuite are able to automatically generate unit test
suites with high coverage. This removes the burden of writing unit tests from developers, but …

Continuous integration (CI) is a software development practice that has been gaining
increasing popularity in the last few years. However, we still miss a collection of experiences …

Software testing is an integral part of modern software engineering practice. Past research
has not only underlined its significance, but also revealed its multi-faceted nature. The …