Test cases are an essential asset to evaluate software quality. The research community has
provided various alternatives to help developers assessing the quality of tests, like code or …

Good unit tests play a paramount role when it comes to foster and evaluate software quality.
However, writing effective tests is an extremely costly and time consuming practice. To …

Unit testing has been considered as having a key role in building high quality software, and
therefore it has been widely used in practice. However, data on the relationship between …

Test cases are crucial to help developers preventing the introduction of software faults.
Unfortunately, not all the tests are properly designed or can effectively capture faults in …

Unit testing is an essential component of the software development life-cycle. A developer
could easily and quickly catch and fix software faults introduced in the source code by …

Various proxy metrics for test quality have been defined in order to guide developers when
writing tests. Code coverage is particularly well established in practice, even though the …

Generating unit tests automatically saves time over writing tests manually and can lead to
higher code coverage. However, automatically generated tests are usually not based on …

Testing Technical Debt (TTD) occurs due to shortcuts (non-optimal decisions) taken about
testing; it is the test dimension of technical debt. R is a package-based programming …

Automated testing is a basic principle of agile development. Its benefits include early defect
detection, defect causelocalization and removal of fear to apply changes to the code …

The readability of software code is a key success criterion for understanding and
maintaining software systems and tests. In industry practice, a limited number of guidelines …