Microbenchmarking is a widely used form of performance testing in Java software. A
microbenchmark repeatedly executes a small chunk of code while collecting measurements …

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

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 …

Continuous Integration (CI) has been claimed to introduce several benefits in software
development, including high software quality and reliability. However, recent work pointed …

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) …

Continuous integration (CI) is a widely used practice in modern software engineering.
Unfortunately, it is also an expensive practice. Google and Mozilla estimate their expenses …

Context Continuous experimentation guides development activities based on data collected
on a subset of online users on a new experimental version of the software. It includes …

Continuous Integration (CI) is a set of software development practices that allow software
development teams to generate software builds more quickly and periodically (eg, daily or …

One of the main challenges that developers face when testing their systems lies in
engineering test cases that are good enough to reveal bugs. And while our body of …

Software development increasingly depends on libraries and frameworks to increase
productivity and reduce time-to-market. Despite this fact, we still lack techniques to assess …