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Refactoring edits aim to improve structural aspects of a system without changing its external behavior. However, while trying to perform a safe edit, a developer might introduce refactoring faults. To avoid refactoring faults, developers often use test ...

In agile methods, the priority of fast delivery of operational software has directly reached the execution of the activities foreseen in the Requirements Engineering (RE) and Software Testing (ST) stages. Thus, understanding how these activities have ...

Specifying software systems brings value by increasing confidence. However, engineers struggle to adopt this practice for its steep learning curve and lack of connection to production software. These problems can be addressed with simulation of ...

[Context:] Software testing is an important activity to ensure software quality. However, this is expensive because it is hard to generate and select practical test cases to execute a software system. Many infeasible test requirements collaborate to ...

Debugging aims at finding and correcting software defects. To help the developer, fault localization techniques were developed using association metrics and code coverage data spectra to identify the most suspicious code snippets. They assist the ...

The effectiveness of mutation testing relies on the mutants that are used. However, mutant generation is time-consuming and unwieldy to carry out manually mainly because of the vast number of mutants that need to be generated. Thus, many mutation tools ...

Mutation testing analyzes test suites to verify their capability to detect artificially injected faults. Mutation testing tools rely on mutation operators to simulate those faults by modifying language constructs. The popularization of Streaming APIs, ...

Context: Test-related technical debt (TRTD) refers to debt items that affect software testing activities, compromising their quality. Having information on indicators of their presence, causes, effects, and preventive practices can support the ...