Mutation testing realizes the idea of using artificial defects to support testing activities.
Mutation is typically used as a way to evaluate the adequacy of test suites, to guide the …

The adoption of agile approaches has put an increased emphasis on testing, resulting in
extensive test suites. These suites include a large number of tests, in which developers …

Regression testing is crucial for ensuring the quality of modern software systems, but can be
extremely costly in practice. Test-case prioritization has been proposed to improve the …

In the literature, there is a rather clear segregation between manually written tests by
developers and automatically generated ones. In this paper, we explore a third solution: to …

Java projects are often built on top of various third-party libraries. If multiple versions of a
library exist on the classpath, JVM will only load one version and shadow the others, which …

Intensive use of libraries in Java projects brings potential risk of dependency conflicts, which
occur when a project directly or indirectly depends on multiple versions of the same library …

Source-to-source code translation automatically translates a program from one
programming language to another. The existing research on code translation evaluates the …

Automated test techniques usually generate unit tests with higher code coverage than
manual tests. However, the readability of automated tests is crucial for code comprehension …

This paper presents a large-scale study that investigates the bug resolution characteristics
among popular Github projects written in different programming languages. We explore …

The application of model transformations is a critical component in Model-Driven
Engineering (MDE). To ensure the correctness of the generated models, these model …