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 …

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 …

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 …

Regression testing provides important pass or fail signals that developers use to make
decisions after code changes. However, flaky tests, which pass or fail even when the code …

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 …

Change-based testing is a key component of continuous integration at Facebook. However,
a large number of tests coupled with a high rate of changes committed to our monolithic …

Mutation testing is widely used in research as a metric for evaluating the quality of test
suites. Mutation testing runs the test suite on generated mutants (variants of the code under …

ECJ is now 20 years old. Begun as a genetic programming and evolutionary computation
library in Java, it has since established itself as historically one of the most popular EC …

Developers rely on regression testing in their continuous integration (CI) environment to find
changes that introduce regression faults. While regression testing is widely practiced, it can …

Regression testing is the activity performed by developers to check whether new
modifications have not introduced bugs. A crucial requirement to make regression testing …