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08/22/2023
Large-scale information retrieval in software engineering – an experience report from industrial application
Software Engineering activities are information intensive. Research prop...
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08/15/2023
Assessing requirements engineering and software test alignment – Five case studies
The development of large, software-intensive systems is a complex undert...
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07/24/2023
Evaluation and Measurement of Software Process Improvement – A Systematic Literature Review
BACKGROUND: Software Process Improvement (SPI) is a systematic approach ...
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07/24/2023
A conceptual framework for SPI evaluation
Software Process Improvement (SPI) encompasses the analysis and modifica...
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07/24/2023
Challenges and Practices in Aligning Requirements with Verification and Validation: A Case Study of Six Companies
Weak alignment of requirements engineering (RE) with verification and va...
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07/24/2023
A Taxonomy for Requirements Engineering and Software Test Alignment
Requirements Engineering and Software Testing are mature areas and have ...
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07/23/2023
Challenges in aligning requirements engineering and verification in a large-scale industrial context
[Context and motivation] When developing software, coordination between ...
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06/08/2023
Towards Autonomous Testing Agents via Conversational Large Language Models
Software testing is an important part of the development cycle, yet it r...
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06/04/2023
Learning Test-Mutant Relationship for Accurate Fault Localisation
Context: Automated fault localisation aims to assist developers in the t...
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01/18/2023
Towards Causal Analysis of Empirical Software Engineering Data: The Impact of Programming Languages on Coding Competitions
There is abundant observational data in the software engineering domain,...
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01/10/2023
Robust web element identification for evolving applications by considering visual overlaps
Fragile (i.e., non-robust) test execution is a common challenge for auto...
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08/01/2022
Similarity-based web element localization for robust test automation
Non-robust (fragile) test execution is a commonly reported challenge in ...
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07/19/2022
Automated Black-Box Boundary Value Detection
The input domain of software systems can typically be divided into sub-d...
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06/28/2022
Test2Vec: An Execution Trace Embedding for Test Case Prioritization
Most automated software testing tasks can benefit from the abstract repr...
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01/16/2022
A Taxonomy of Information Attributes for Test Case Prioritisation: Applicability, Machine Learning
Most software companies have extensive test suites and re-run parts of t...
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01/14/2022
Cognition in Software Engineering: A Taxonomy and Survey of a Half-Century of Research
Cognition plays a fundamental role in most software engineering activiti...
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10/26/2021
Automated Support for Unit Test Generation: A Tutorial Book Chapter
Unit testing is a stage of testing where the smallest segment of code th...
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04/19/2021
Causal Program Dependence Analysis
We introduce Causal Program Dependence Analysis (CPDA), a dynamic depend...
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03/08/2021
Towards Human-Like Automated Test Generation: Perspectives from Cognition and Problem Solving
Automated testing tools typically create test cases that are different f...
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01/29/2021
Applying Bayesian Analysis Guidelines to Empirical Software Engineering Data: The Case of Programming Languages and Code Quality
Statistical analysis is the tool of choice to turn data into information...
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10/19/2020
Using mutation testing to measure behavioural test diversity
Diversity has been proposed as a key criterion to improve testing effect...
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10/07/2020
Empirical Standards for Software Engineering Research
Empirical Standards are natural-language models of a scientific communit...
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07/17/2020
Towards a Model of Testers' Cognitive Processes: Software Testing as a Problem Solving Approach
Software testing is a complex, intellectual activity based (at least) on...
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05/29/2020
Reducing DNN Labelling Cost using Surprise Adequacy: An Industrial Case Study for Autonomous Driving
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are rapidly being adopted by the automotive ...
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05/20/2020
Psychometrics in Behavioral Software Engineering: A Methodological Introduction with Guidelines
Humans are what constitutes the most complex and complicated, yet fascin...
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05/20/2020
Behavioral Software Engineering: Methodological Introduction to Psychometrics
Humans are what constitutes the most complex and complicated, yet fascin...
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05/19/2020
SINVAD: Search-based Image Space Navigation for DNN Image Classifier Test Input Generation
The testing of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has become increasingly impor...
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01/18/2020
Boundary Value Exploration for Software Analysis
For software to be reliable and resilient, it is widely accepted that te...
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07/08/2019
Estimating Return on Investment for GUI Test Automation Tools
Automated graphical user interface (GUI) tests can reduce manual testing...
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05/27/2019
Towards Automated Boundary Value Testing with Program Derivatives and Search
A natural and often used strategy when testing software is to use input ...
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04/08/2019
The Unfulfilled Potential of Data-Driven Decision Making in Agile Software Development
With the general trend towards data-driven decision making (DDDM), organ...
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04/04/2019
Group development and group maturity when building agile teams: A qualitative and quantitative investigation at eight large companies
The agile approach to projects focuses more on close-knit teams than tra...
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04/04/2019
Group Maturity and Agility, Are They Connected? - A Survey Study
The focus on psychology has increased within software engineering due to...
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04/04/2019
The prospects of a quantitative measurement of agility: A validation study on an agile maturity model
Agile development has now become a well-known approach to collaboration ...
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04/04/2019
Work Motivational Challenges Regarding the Interface Between Agile Teams and a Non-Agile Surrounding Organization: A case study
There are studies showing what happens if agile teams are introduced int...
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02/26/2019
Amortising the Cost of Mutation Based Fault Localisation using Statistical Inference
Mutation analysis can effectively capture the dependency between source ...
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11/13/2018
Bayesian Data Analysis in Empirical Software Engineering Research
Statistics comes in two main flavors: frequentist and Bayesian. For hist...
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10/15/2018
Finding a boundary between valid and invalid regions of the input space
In the context of robustness testing, the boundary between the valid and...
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10/14/2018
Misaligned Values in Software Engineering Organizations
The values of software organizations are crucial for achieving high perf...
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09/26/2018
Arguing Practical Significance in Software Engineering Using Bayesian Data Analysis
This paper provides a case for using Bayesian data analysis (BDA) to mak...
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08/25/2018
Guiding Deep Learning System Testing using Surprise Adequacy
Deep Learning (DL) systems are rapidly being adopted in safety and secur...
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07/15/2018
Visualizing test diversity to support test optimisation
Diversity has been used as an effective criteria to optimise test suites...
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05/03/2018
Involving External Stakeholders in Project Courses
Problem: The involvement of external stakeholders in capstone projects a...
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04/24/2018
Transferring Interactive Search-Based Software Testing to Industry
Search-Based Software Testing (SBST) is the application of optimization ...
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03/09/2018
The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities
Biological evolution provides a creative fount of complex and subtle ada...
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02/20/2018
A Testability Analysis Framework for Non-Functional Properties
This paper presents background, the basic steps and an example for a tes...
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02/06/2018
Ways of Applying Artificial Intelligence in Software Engineering
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques have become more powerful and...
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02/05/2018
Psychological Safety and Norm Clarity in Software Engineering Teams
In the software engineering industry today, companies primarily conduct ...
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12/22/2017
Behavioral software engineering - guidelines for qualitative studies
Researchers are increasingly recognizing the importance of human aspects...
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09/18/2017