Predictive models are one of the most important techniques that are widely applied in many
areas of software engineering. There have been a large number of primary studies that …

Deep learning has gained tremendous traction from the developer and researcher
communities. It plays an increasingly significant role in a number of application domains …

In recent years, researchers and practitioners have been studying the impact of test smells
on test maintenance. However, there is still limited empirical evidence on why developers …

Detecting the dependency between integration test cases plays a vital role in the area of
software test optimization. Classifying test cases into two main classes–dependent and …

Technical Debt (TD) can be paid back either by those that incurred it or by others. We call
the former self-fixed TD, and it is particularly effective, as developers are experts in their own …

In long lifespan software systems, specification documents can be outdated or even missing.
Developing new software releases or checking whether some user requirements are still …

As the software project has been more and more complex than ever, software test case
automatic generation is of great importance for software testing. In this paper, we aim to …

Software test cases can be defined as a set of condition where a tester needs to test and
determine that the System Under Test (SUT) satisfied with the expected result correctly. This …

The information technology sector is continuously growing, and there is a high demand for
developers. In the area of software development projects, fixing bugs or solving issues is a …

Software defect prediction is an important way to make full use of software test resources
and improve software performance. To deal with the problem that of the shallow machine …