What is the vocabulary of flaky tests?

G Pinto, B Miranda, S Dissanayake… - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Flaky tests are tests whose outcomes are non-deterministic. Despite the recent research
activity on this topic, no effort has been made on understanding the vocabulary of flaky tests …

A survey on how test flakiness affects developers and what support they need to address it

M Gruber, G Fraser - 2022 IEEE Conference on Software …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Non-deterministically passing and failing test cases, so-called flaky tests, have recently
become a focus area of software engineering research. While this research focus has been …

A survey of flaky tests

O Parry, GM Kapfhammer, M Hilton… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Tests that fail inconsistently, without changes to the code under test, are described as flaky.
Flaky tests do not give a clear indication of the presence of software bugs and thus limit the …

Detecting flaky tests in probabilistic and machine learning applications

S Dutta, A Shi, R Choudhary, Z Zhang, A Jain… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Probabilistic programming systems and machine learning frameworks like Pyro, PyMC3,
TensorFlow, and PyTorch provide scalable and efficient primitives for inference and training …

Root causing flaky tests in a large-scale industrial setting

W Lam, P Godefroid, S Nath, A Santhiar… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
In today's agile world, developers often rely on continuous integration pipelines to help build
and validate their changes by executing tests in an efficient manner. One of the significant …

An empirical analysis of flaky tests

Q Luo, F Hariri, L Eloussi, D Marinov - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Regression testing is a crucial part of software development. It checks that software changes
do not break existing functionality. An important assumption of regression testing is that test …

A large-scale longitudinal study of flaky tests

W Lam, S Winter, A Wei, T Xie, D Marinov… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Flaky tests are tests that can non-deterministically pass or fail for the same code version.
These tests undermine regression testing efficiency, because developers cannot easily …

Understanding flaky tests: The developer's perspective

M Eck, F Palomba, M Castelluccio… - Proceedings of the 2019 …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Flaky tests are software tests that exhibit a seemingly random outcome (pass or fail) despite
exercising unchanged code. In this work, we examine the perceptions of software …

On the use of test smells for prediction of flaky tests

B Camara, M Silva, A Endo, S Vergilio - Proceedings of the 6th Brazilian …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Regression testing is an important phase to deliver software with quality. However, flaky
tests hamper the evaluation of test results and can increase costs. This is because a flaky …

iDFlakies: A framework for detecting and partially classifying flaky tests

W Lam, R Oei, A Shi, D Marinov… - 2019 12th ieee …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Regression testing is increasingly important with the wide use of continuous integration. A
desirable requirement for regression testing is that a test failure reliably indicates a problem …