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One of the most widely studied techniques in software testing researchis mutation testing - a technique for evaluating the quality of testsuites. Despite over four decades of academic advances in thistechnique, mutation testing has not found its way to mainstreamdevelopment. The key issue with mutation testing is its highcomputational cost: it requires running the test suite against notjust the program...
Performance testing is a challenging task mainly due to the lack of test oracles, that is, mechanisms to decide whether the performance of a program under a certain workload is either acceptable or poor due to a performance bug. Metamorphic testing enables the generation of test cases in the absence of an oracle by exploiting the relations (so-called metamorphic relations) between the inputs and outputs...
Recent research has provided evidence that software developers experience a wide range of emotions. We argue that among those emotions anger deserves special attention as it can serve as an onset for tools supporting collaborative softwaredevelopment. This, however, requires a fine-grained model of the anger emotion, able to distinguish between anger directed towards self, others, and objects. Detecting...
DevOps and continuous development are getting popular in the software industry. Adopting these modern approaches in regulatory environments, such as medical device software, is not straightforward because of the demand for regulatory compliance. While DevOps relies on continuous deployment and integration, regulated environments require strict audits and approvals before releases. Therefore, the use...
Program synthesis is succeeding in supporting the generation of programs within increasingly complex domains. The use of weaker specifications, such as those consisting of input/output examples or test cases, has helped to fuel the success of program synthesis by lowering adoption barriers. Yet, employing weaker specifications has the side effect of generating a potentially large number of candidate...
We present an original concept for patch generation: we propose to do it directly in production. Our idea is to generate patches on-the-fly based on automated analysis of the failure context. By doing this in production, the repair process has complete access to the system state at the point of failure. We propose to perform live regression testing of the generated patches directly on the production...
API documentation is useful for developers to better understand how tocorrectly use the libraries. However, not all libraries provide gooddocumentation on API usages. To provide better documentation, existingtechniques have been proposed including program analysis-based anddata mining-based approaches. In this work, instead of mining, we aimto generate behavioral exception documentation for any given...
User guides, also known as user manuals, are a type of documentation aimed at helping a user operate a specific system. For software systems, user guides usually include screenshots that show users how to interact with the user interface. Because creating such screenshots is a slow, manual process, keeping the user guide up-to-date with changes in the user interface is challenging. We propose an approach...
An important part of software engineering (SE) research is to develop new analysis techniques and to integrate these techniques into software development practice. However, since access to developers is non-trivial and research tool adoption is slow, new analyses are typically evaluated as follows: a prototype tool that embeds the analysis is implemented, a set of projects is identified, their revisions...
Ultra-large-scale mining has been shown to be useful for a number of software engineering tasks e.g. mining specifications, defect prediction. We propose a new research direction for accelerating ultra-large-scale mining that goes beyond parallelization. Our key idea is to analyze the interaction pattern between the mining task and the artifact to cluster artifacts such that running the mining task...
To improve software quality, one needs to build test scenarios resembling the usage of a software product in the field. This task is rendered challenging when a product's customer base is large and diverse. In this scenario, existing profiling approaches, such as operational profiling, are difficult to apply. In this work, we considerpublicly available video tutorials of a product to profile usage...
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