Tests that fail inconsistently, without changes to the code under test, are described as flaky.
Flaky tests do not give a clear indication of the presence of software bugs and thus limit the …

The effectiveness of search-based automated program repair is limited in the number of
correct patches that can be successfully generated. There are two causes of such limitation …

Learning-based fault localization has been intensively studied recently. Prior studies have
shown that traditional Learning-to-Rank techniques can help precisely diagnose fault …

Testing is widely recognized as an important stage of the software development lifecycle.
Effective software testing can provide benefits such as bug finding, preventing regressions …

Test-based automated program repair (APR) has attracted huge attention from both industry
and academia. Despite the significant progress made in recent studies, the overfitting …

Defects4J is a large, peer-reviewed, structured dataset of real-world Java bugs. Each bug in
Defects4J comes with a test suite and at least one failing test case that triggers the bug. In …

Property-based testing (PBT), while an established technique in the software testing
research community, is still relatively underused in real-world software. Pain points in writing …

Automated unit test generation has been extensively studied in the literature in recent years.
Previous studies on open source systems have shown that test generation tools are quite …

Manual debugging is notoriously tedious and time consuming. Therefore, various automated
fault localization techniques have been proposed to help with manual debugging. Among …

Static bug detectors are becoming increasingly popular and are widely used by professional
software developers. While most work on bug detectors focuses on whether they find bugs at …