Developers insert logging statements to collect information about the execution of their systems. Along with a logging framework (eg, Log4j), practitioners can decide which log …
Continuous Integration (CI) is a common practice adopted by modern software organizations. It plays an especially important role for large corporations like Ubisoft, where …
Flaky tests are tests that pass and fail on different executions of the same version of a program under test. They waste valuable developer time by making developers investigate …
To produce a video game, engineers and artists must iterate on the same project simultaneously. In such projects, a change to the work products of any of the teams can …
A critical aspect of software development, build reproducibility, ensures the dependability, security, and maintainability of software systems. Although several factors, including the …
H Patel, B Adams, AE Hassan - Empirical Software Engineering, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Once a Machine Learning (ML) model is deployed, the same model is typically retrained from scratch, either on a scheduled interval or as soon as model drift is detected, to …
During code reviews, an essential step in software quality assurance, reviewers have the difficult task of understanding and evaluating code changes to validate their quality and …
Flaky tests are tests that can non-deterministically pass or fail, even in the absence of code changes. Despite being a source of false alarms, flaky tests often remain in test suites once …
Nowadays, software analytics tools using machine learning (ML) models to, for example, predict the risk of a code change are well established. However, as the goals of a project …