The adoption of agile approaches has put an increased emphasis on testing, resulting in
extensive test suites. These suites include a large number of tests, in which developers …

Continuous Integration (CI) has become a best practice of modern software development.
Yet, at present, we have a shortfall of insight into the testing practices that are common in CI …

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

The use of automatic static analysis has been a software engineering best practice for
decades. However, we still do not know a lot about its use in real-world software projects …

Context: Modern software development increasingly relies on software testing for an ever
more frequent delivery of high quality software. This puts high demands on the quality of the …

Test smells are sub-optimal design choices in the implementation of test code. As reported
by recent studies, their presence might not only negatively affect the comprehension of test …

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 …

Issue tracking systems are commonly used in modern software development for collecting
feedback from users and developers. An ultimate automation target of software maintenance …

Modern version control systems, eg, GitHub, include bug tracking mechanisms that
developers can use to highlight the presence of bugs. This is done by means of bug reports …

Regression test selection (RTS) aims to reduce regression testing time by only re-running
the tests affected by code changes. Prior research on RTS can be broadly split into dy namic …