Mutant selection refers to the problem of choosing, among a large number of mutants, the
(few) ones that should be used by the testers. In view of this, we investigate the problem of …

Developers typically rely on regression testing techniques to ensure that their changes do
not break existing functionality. Unfortunately, these techniques suffer from flaky tests, which …

Mutation-based fault localization (MBFL) is a recently proposed technique with the
advantage of high fault localization accuracy. However, such a mutation analysis based …

Identifying the location of faults in programs has been recognized as one of the most
manually and time cost activities during software debugging process. Fault localization …

This paper presents a test suite (TS) minimization algorithm based on ant colony
optimization. The algorithm represents all the test cases in the test suite as nodes of a …

As software becomes more important and ubiquitous, high quality software also becomes
crucial. Developers constantly make changes to improve software, and they rely on …

The work in the thesis has been carried out under the auspices of the research school IPA
(Institute for Programming research and Algorithmics) and was financed by the Nederlandse …