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2020 – today
- 2024
- [j27]Owain Parry, Martin Gruber, Tim A. D. Henderson, Phil McMinn, Gordon Fraser:
Summary of the 1st International Flaky Test Workshop (FTW 2024). ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes 49(3): 35-36 (2024) - [c74]Islam T. Elgendy
, Robert M. Hierons
Evaluating String Distance Metrics for Reducing Automatically Generated Test Suites. AST@ICSE 2024: 171-181 - [c73]Martin Gruber
Do Automatic Test Generation Tools Generate Flaky Tests? ICSE 2024: 47:1-47:12 - [i5]Owain Parry, John Clark, Phil McMinn:
Improving the Reliability of Quantum Circuits by Evolving Heterogeneous Ensembles. CoRR abs/2409.09103 (2024) - 2023
- [j26]Owain Parry
Empirically evaluating flaky test detection techniques combining test case rerunning and machine learning models. Empir. Softw. Eng. 28(3): 72 (2023) - [c72]Zalán Lévai
Batching Non-Conflicting Mutations for Efficient, Safe, Parallel Mutation Analysis in Rust. ICST 2023: 49-59 - [i4]Martin Gruber, Muhammad Firhard Roslan, Owain Parry, Fabian Scharnböck, Phil McMinn, Gordon Fraser:
Do Automatic Test Generation Tools Generate Flaky Tests? CoRR abs/2310.05223 (2023) - [i3]Islam T. Elgendy, Robert M. Hierons
A Survey of the Metrics, Uses, and Subjects of Diversity-Based Techniques in Software Testing. CoRR abs/2311.09714 (2023) - 2022
- [j25]Owain Parry
A Survey of Flaky Tests. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. 31(1): 17:1-17:74 (2022) - [c71]Owain Parry, Michael Hilton, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Phil McMinn:
What Do Developer-Repaired Flaky Tests Tell Us About the Effectiveness of Automated Flaky Test Detection? AST@ICSE 2022: 160-164 - [c70]Benjamin Simon Clegg, Gordon Fraser, Phil McMinn:
Diagnosability, Adequacy & Size: How Test Suites Impact Autograding. HICSS 2022: 1-10 - [c69]Owain Parry, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Michael Hilton, Phil McMinn:
Surveying the Developer Experience of Flaky Tests. ICSE (SEIP) 2022: 253-262 - [c68]Owain Parry
Evaluating Features for Machine Learning Detection of Order- and Non-Order-Dependent Flaky Tests. ICST 2022: 93-104 - [c67]Ibrahim Althomali, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Phil McMinn:
Automated Repair of Responsive Web Page Layouts. ICST 2022: 140-150 - [c66]Muhammad Firhard Roslan
An Empirical Comparison of EvoSuite and DSpot for Improving Developer-Written Test Suites with Respect to Mutation Score. SSBSE 2022: 19-34 - 2021
- [j24]Sonal Mahajan
Effective automated repair of internationalization presentation failures in web applications using style similarity clustering and search-based techniques. Softw. Test. Verification Reliab. 31(1-2) (2021) - [j23]Ibrahim Althomali
Automated visual classification of DOM-based presentation failure reports for responsive web pages. Softw. Test. Verification Reliab. 31(4) (2021) - [c65]Benjamin S. Clegg
Gradeer: An Open-Source Modular Hybrid Grader. ICSE (SEET) 2021: 60-65 - [c64]Benjamin Simon Clegg
An Empirical Study to Determine if Mutants Can Effectively Simulate Students' Programming Mistakes to Increase Tutors' Confidence in Autograding. SIGCSE 2021: 1055-1061 - [i2]Benjamin S. Clegg, Maria-Cruz Villa-Uriol, Phil McMinn, Gordon Fraser:
Gradeer: An Open-Source Modular Hybrid Grader. CoRR abs/2102.09400 (2021) - 2020
- [j22]Thomas A. Walsh
Automatically identifying potential regressions in the layout of responsive web pages. Softw. Test. Verification Reliab. 30(6) (2020) - [c63]Benjamin S. Clegg
The Influence of Test Suite Properties on Automated Grading of Programming Exercises. CSEE&T 2020: 1-10 - [c62]Owain Parry, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Michael Hilton, Phil McMinn:
Flake It 'Till You Make It: Using Automated Repair to Induce and Fix Latent Test Flakiness. ICSE (Workshops) 2020: 11-12 - [c61]Abdullah Alsharif, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Phil McMinn:
Hybrid Methods for Reducing Database Schema Test Suites: Experimental Insights from Computational and Human Studies. AST@ICSE 2020: 41-50 - [c60]Abdullah Alsharif, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Phil McMinn:
STICCER: Fast and Effective Database Test Suite Reduction Through Merging of Similar Test Cases. ICST 2020: 220-230 - [c59]Dave W. Binkley, James Glenn, Abdullah Alsharif, Phil McMinn:
An Investigation into the Effect of Control and Data Dependence Paths on Predicate Testability. SCAM 2020: 160-170
2010 – 2019
- 2019
- [j21]Phil McMinn
Automatic Detection and Removal of Ineffective Mutants for the Mutation Analysis of Relational Database Schemas. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 45(5): 427-463 (2019) - [c58]Benjamin S. Clegg
Simulating student mistakes to evaluate the fairness of automated grading. ICSE (SEET) 2019: 121-125 - [c57]Abdullah Alsharif, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Phil McMinn:
What Factors Make SQL Test Cases Understandable for Testers? A Human Study of Automated Test Data Generation Techniques. ICSME 2019: 437-448 - [c56]Ibrahim Althomali, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Phil McMinn:
Automatic Visual Verification of Layout Failures in Responsively Designed Web Pages. ICST 2019: 183-193 - [c55]David Paterson, José Campos
An Empirical Study on the Use of Defect Prediction for Test Case Prioritization. ICST 2019: 346-357 - 2018
- [j20]Sina Shamshiri
Random or evolutionary search for object-oriented test suite generation? Softw. Test. Verification Reliab. 28(4) (2018) - [j19]Mathew Hall
Effectively Incorporating Expert Knowledge in Automated Software Remodularisation. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 44(7): 613-630 (2018) - [c54]David Paterson, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Gordon Fraser, Phil McMinn:
Using controlled numbers of real faults and mutants to empirically evaluate coverage-based test case prioritization. AST@ICSE 2018: 57-63 - [c53]Sonal Mahajan, Negarsadat Abolhassani, Phil McMinn, William G. J. Halfond:
Automated repair of mobile friendly problems in web pages. ICSE 2018: 140-150 - [c52]Abdullah Alsharif, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Phil McMinn:
DOMINO: Fast and Effective Test Data Generation for Relational Database Schemas. ICST 2018: 12-22 - [c51]Sonal Mahajan, Abdulmajeed Alameer, Phil McMinn, William G. J. Halfond:
Automated Repair of Internationalization Presentation Failures in Web Pages Using Style Similarity Clustering and Search-Based Techniques. ICST 2018: 215-226 - [c50]Mohammad Moein Almasi, Hadi Hemmati, Gordon Fraser, Phil McMinn, Janis Benefelds:
Search-based detection of deviation failures in the migration of legacy spreadsheet applications. ISSTA 2018: 266-275 - [e3]Thelma Elita Colanzi, Phil McMinn:
Search-Based Software Engineering - 10th International Symposium, SSBSE 2018, Montpellier, France, September 8-9, 2018, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 11036, Springer 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-99240-2 [contents] - 2017
- [c49]Sina Shamshiri, José Campos
Disposable testing: avoiding maintenance of generated unit tests by throwing them away. ICSE (Companion Volume) 2017: 207-209 - [c48]Thomas A. Walsh, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Phil McMinn:
Automated layout failure detection for responsive web pages without an explicit oracle. ISSTA 2017: 192-202 - [c47]Sonal Mahajan, Abdulmajeed Alameer, Phil McMinn, William G. J. Halfond:
Automated repair of layout cross browser issues using search-based techniques. ISSTA 2017: 249-260 - [c46]Thomas A. Walsh, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Phil McMinn:
ReDeCheck: an automatic layout failure checking tool for responsively designed web pages. ISSTA 2017: 360-363 - [c45]Sonal Mahajan, Abdulmajeed Alameer, Phil McMinn, William G. J. Halfond:
XFix: an automated tool for the repair of layout cross browser issues. ISSTA 2017: 368-371 - [c44]Junhwi Kim, Byeonghyeon You, Minhyuk Kwon, Phil McMinn, Shin Yoo:
Evaluating CAVM: A New Search-Based Test Data Generation Tool for C. SSBSE 2017: 143-149 - 2016
- [c43]Phil McMinn, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Chris J. Wright:
Virtual mutation analysis of relational database schemas. AST@ICSE 2016: 36-42 - [c42]Phil McMinn, Mark Harman, Gordon Fraser, Gregory M. Kapfhammer:
Automated search for good coverage criteria: moving from code coverage to fault coverage through search-based software engineering. SBST@ICSE 2016: 43-44 - [c41]Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Phil McMinn, Chris J. Wright:
Hitchhikers need free vehicles!: shared repositories for statistical analysis in SBST. SBST@ICSE 2016: 55-56 - [c40]Phil McMinn, Chris J. Wright, Cody Kinneer, Colton J. McCurdy, Michael Camara, Gregory M. Kapfhammer:
SchemaAnalyst: Search-Based Test Data Generation for Relational Database Schemas. ICSME 2016: 586-590 - [c39]Colton J. McCurdy, Phil McMinn, Gregory M. Kapfhammer:
mrstudyr: Retrospectively Studying the Effectiveness of Mutant Reduction Techniques. ICSME 2016: 591-595 - [c38]Phil McMinn, Gregory M. Kapfhammer:
AVMf: An Open-Source Framework and Implementation of the Alternating Variable Method. SSBSE 2016: 259-266 - 2015
- [j18]Gordon Fraser
A Memetic Algorithm for whole test suite generation. J. Syst. Softw. 103: 311-327 (2015) - [j17]Muzammil Shahbaz
Automatic generation of valid and invalid test data for string validation routines using web searches and regular expressions. Sci. Comput. Program. 97: 405-425 (2015) - [j16]Joseph Kempka, Phil McMinn, Dirk Sudholt:
Design and analysis of different alternating variable searches for search-based software testing. Theor. Comput. Sci. 605: 1-20 (2015) - [j15]Gordon Fraser, Matt Staats, Phil McMinn, Andrea Arcuri, Frank Padberg:
Does Automated Unit Test Generation Really Help Software Testers? A Controlled Empirical Study. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. 24(4): 23:1-23:49 (2015) - [j14]Phil McMinn, Chris J. Wright, Gregory M. Kapfhammer:
The Effectiveness of Test Coverage Criteria for Relational Database Schema Integrity Constraints. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. 25(1): 8:1-8:49 (2015) - [j13]Earl T. Barr
The Oracle Problem in Software Testing: A Survey. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 41(5): 507-525 (2015) - [c37]Sina Shamshiri, José Miguel Rojas
Random or Genetic Algorithm Search for Object-Oriented Test Suite Generation? GECCO 2015: 1367-1374 - [c36]Sina Shamshiri, René Just, José Miguel Rojas
Do Automatically Generated Unit Tests Find Real Faults? An Empirical Study of Effectiveness and Challenges (T). ASE 2015: 201-211 - [c35]Thomas A. Walsh, Phil McMinn, Gregory M. Kapfhammer:
Automatic Detection of Potential Layout Faults Following Changes to Responsive Web Pages (N). ASE 2015: 709-714 - [c34]Cody Kinneer, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Phil McMinn, Chris J. Wright:
Automatically Evaluating the Efficiency of Search-Based Test Data Generation for Relational Database Schemas. SEKE 2015: 352-357 - [c33]Cody Kinneer, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Chris J. Wright, Phil McMinn:
ExpOse: Inferring Worst-case Time Complexity by Automatic Empirical Study. SEKE 2015: 730-731 - 2014
- [c32]Mathew Hall
Establishing the Source Code Disruption Caused by Automated Remodularisation Tools. ICSME 2014: 466-470 - [c31]Chris J. Wright, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Phil McMinn:
The Impact of Equivalent, Redundant and Quasi Mutants on Database Schema Mutation Analysis. QSIC 2014: 57-66 - [e2]Phil McMinn, Mark Harman:
7th International Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing, SBST 2014, Hyderabad, India, June 2, 2014. ACM 2014, ISBN 978-1-4503-2852-4 [contents] - 2013
- [j12]Phil McMinn:
An identification of program factors that impact crossover performance in evolutionary test input generation for the branch coverage of C programs. Inf. Softw. Technol. 55(1): 153-172 (2013) - [j11]Saswat Anand, Edmund K. Burke
An orchestrated survey of methodologies for automated software test case generation. J. Syst. Softw. 86(8): 1978-2001 (2013) - [c30]Gordon Fraser, Andrea Arcuri, Phil McMinn:
Test suite generation with memetic algorithms. GECCO 2013: 1437-1444 - [c29]Joseph Kempka, Phil McMinn, Dirk Sudholt:
A theoretical runtime and empirical analysis of different alternating variable searches for search-based testing. GECCO 2013: 1445-1452 - [c28]Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Phil McMinn, Chris J. Wright:
Search-Based Testing of Relational Schema Integrity Constraints Across Multiple Database Management Systems. ICST 2013: 31-40 - [c27]Chris J. Wright, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Phil McMinn:
Efficient Mutation Analysis of Relational Database Structure Using Mutant Schemata and Parallelisation. ICST Workshops 2013: 63-72 - [c26]Sheeva Afshan, Phil McMinn, Mark Stevenson:
Evolving Readable String Test Inputs Using a Natural Language Model to Reduce Human Oracle Cost. ICST 2013: 352-361 - [c25]Sina Shamshiri, Gordon Fraser, Phil McMinn, Alessandro Orso:
Search-Based Propagation of Regression Faults in Automated Regression Testing. ICST Workshops 2013: 396-399 - [c24]Gordon Fraser, Matt Staats, Phil McMinn, Andrea Arcuri, Frank Padberg:
Does automated white-box test generation really help software testers? ISSTA 2013: 291-301 - 2012
- [j10]Phil McMinn, Mark Harman
Input Domain Reduction through Irrelevant Variable Removal and Its Effect on Local, Global, and Hybrid Search-Based Structural Test Data Generation. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 38(2): 453-477 (2012) - [c23]Mathew Hall
Supervised software modularisation. ICSM 2012: 472-481 - [c22]Phil McMinn, Muzammil Shahbaz, Mark Stevenson:
Search-Based Test Input Generation for String Data Types Using the Results of Web Queries. ICST 2012: 141-150 - [c21]Chris J. Wright, Phil McMinn, Julio Gallardo:
Towards the Automatic Identification of Faulty Multi-Agent Based Simulation Runs Using MASTER. MABS 2012: 143-156 - [c20]Muzammil Shahbaz, Phil McMinn, Mark Stevenson:
Automated Discovery of Valid Test Strings from the Web Using Dynamic Regular Expressions Collation and Natural Language Processing. QSIC 2012: 79-88 - 2011
- [c19]Salem Fawaz Adra, Mariam Kiran, Phil McMinn, Neil Walkinshaw
A multiobjective optimisation approach for the dynamic inference and refinement of agent-based model specifications. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2011: 2237-2244 - [c18]Phil McMinn:
Search-Based Software Testing: Past, Present and Future. ICST Workshops 2011: 153-163 - [c17]Arthur I. Baars, Mark Harman
Symbolic search-based testing. ASE 2011: 53-62 - [c16]Sheeva Afshan, Phil McMinn:
Investigation of qualitative human oracle costs. PPIG 2011: 8 - 2010
- [j9]Kiran Lakhotia, Phil McMinn, Mark Harman
An empirical investigation into branch coverage for C programs using CUTE and AUSTIN. J. Syst. Softw. 83(12): 2379-2391 (2010) - [j8]Mark Harman
A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Search-Based Testing: Local, Global, and Hybrid Search. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 36(2): 226-247 (2010) - [c15]Mathew Hall
Superstate identification for state machines using search-based clustering. GECCO 2010: 1381-1388 - [c14]Salem Fawaz Adra, Phil McMinn:
Mutation Operators for Agent-Based Models. ICST Workshops 2010: 151-156 - [c13]Mark Harman
Optimizing for the Number of Tests Generated in Search Based Test Data Generation with an Application to the Oracle Cost Problem. ICST Workshops 2010: 182-191 - [c12]Neil Walkinshaw
Using compression algorithms to support the comprehension of program traces. WODA 2010: 8-13 - [c11]Mark Harman
Search Based Software Engineering: Techniques, Taxonomy, Tutorial. LASER Summer School 2010: 1-59
2000 – 2009
- 2009
- [j7]Mark Harman
TAIC PART 2007 and Mutation 2007 special issue editorial. J. Syst. Softw. 82(11): 1753-1754 (2009) - [j6]Phil McMinn, David W. Binkley, Mark Harman
Empirical evaluation of a nesting testability transformation for evolutionary testing. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. 18(3): 11:1-11:27 (2009) - [c10]Phil McMinn:
Search-based failure discovery using testability transformations to generate pseudo-oracles. GECCO 2009: 1689-1696 - 2008
- [j5]Mariam Kiran, Simon Coakley, Neil Walkinshaw
Validation and discovery from computational biology models. Biosyst. 93(1-2): 141-150 (2008) - [j4]Mark Harman
Editorial: Testing practice and research. Softw. Test. Verification Reliab. 18(2): 69-70 (2008) - [c9]Mark Harman
Testability Transformation - Program Transformation to Improve Testability. Formal Methods and Testing 2008: 320-344 - [c8]Kiran Lakhotia, Mark Harman, Phil McMinn:
Handling dynamic data structures in search based testing. GECCO 2008: 1759-1766 - [i1]Phil McMinn:
Co-testability Transformation. Evolutionary Test Generation 2008 - 2007
- [c7]Kiran Lakhotia, Mark Harman
A multi-objective approach to search-based test data generation. GECCO 2007: 1098-1105 - [c6]Mark Harman
A theoretical & empirical znalysis of evolutionary testing and hill climbing for structural test data generation. ISSTA 2007: 73-83 - [c5]Mark Harman
The impact of input domain reduction on search-based test data generation. ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE 2007: 155-164 - 2006
- [j3]Phil McMinn, Mike Holcombe:
Evolutionary Testing Using an Extended Chaining Approach. Evol. Comput. 14(1): 41-64 (2006) - [j2]Phil McMinn, Robert M. Hierons
Editorial: Addressing industrial challenges - UKTest 2005 and beyond. Softw. Test. Verification Reliab. 16(3): 131-132 (2006) - [c4]Phil McMinn, Mark Harman
The species per path approach to SearchBased test data generation. ISSTA 2006: 13-24 - [e1]Phil McMinn:
Testing: Academia and Industry Conference - Practice And Research Techniques (TAIC PART 2006), 29-31 August 2006, Windsor, United Kingdom. IEEE Computer Society 2006, ISBN 0-7695-2672-1 [contents] - 2005
- [b1]Philip McMinn:
Evolutionary search for test data in the presence of state behaviour. University of Sheffield, UK, 2005 - [c3]Phil McMinn, Mike Holcombe:
Evolutionary testing of state-based programs. GECCO 2005: 1013-1020 - 2004
- [j1]Phil McMinn:
Search-based software test data generation: a survey. Softw. Test. Verification Reliab. 14(2): 105-156 (2004) - [c2]Phil McMinn, Mike Holcombe:
Hybridizing Evolutionary Testing with the Chaining Approach. GECCO (2) 2004: 1363-1374 - 2003
- [c1]Phil McMinn, Mike Holcombe:
The State Problem for Evolutionary Testing. GECCO 2003: 2488-2498
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