Automated unit test generation is a well-known methodology aiming to reduce the
developers' effort of writing tests manually. Prior research focused mainly on statically typed …

Context: In any discipline, replications of empirical studies are necessary to consolidate the
acquired knowledge. In Software Engineering, replications have been reported since the …

Test smells aim to capture design issues in test code that reduces its maintainability. These
have been extensively studied and generally found quite prevalent in both human-written …

Context Machine learning (ML) software systems are permeating many aspects of our life,
such as healthcare, transportation, banking, and recruitment. These systems are trained with …

3D point cloud applications have become increasingly prevalent in diverse domains,
showcasing their efficacy in various software systems. However, testing such applications …

Various mature automated test generation tools exist for statically typed programming
languages such as Java. Automatically generating unit tests for dynamically typed …

Many recent studies have shown that various multi-objective evolutionary algorithms have
been widely applied in the field of search-based software engineering (SBSE) for optimal …

With the ever-increasing use of web APIs in modern-day applications, it is becoming more
important to test the system as a whole. In the last decade, tools and approaches have been …

Test smells attempt to capture design issues in test code that reduce their maintainability.
Previous work found such smells to be highly common in automatically generated test …

Context: A large number of Ethereum smart contracts have been deployed on blockchain to
manage assets. Unfortunately, due to the immutable nature of blockchain, smart contracts …