Publications

Listed below are our peer-reviewed research publications around test smells:

• Wajdi Aljedaani, Anthony Peruma, Ahmed Aljohani, Mazen Alotaibi, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, Christian D. Newman, Abdullatif Ghallab, and Stephanie Ludi. 2021. Test Smell Detection Tools: A Systematic Mapping Study. In EASE '21: The International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, June 21–23, 2021, Trondheim, Norway. ACM, New York, NY, USA

  Download Publication
  Dataset
  Download Presentation
  Recorded Presentation

• Anthony Peruma and Christian D. Newman. 2021. On the Distribution of "Simple Stupid Bugs" in Unit Test Files: An Exploratory Study. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA

  Download Publication
  Download Presentation
  Recorded Presentation

• Anthony Peruma, Khalid Almalki, Christian D. Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, and Fabio Palomba. 2020. tsDetect: An Open Source Test Smells Detection Tool. In Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE '20), November 8–13, 2020, Virtual Event, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3368089.3417921

  Download Publication
  Download Presentation
  Recorded Presentation

• Anthony Peruma, Christian D. Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, and Fabio Palomba. 2020. An Exploratory Study on the Refactoring of Unit Test Files in Android Applications. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Refactoring (IWoR 2020). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.

  Download Publication
  Download Presentation
  Recorded Presentation

• Anthony Peruma, Khalid Almalki, Christian D. Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, and Fabio Palomba. 2019. On the Distribution of Test Smells in Open Source Android Applications: An Exploratory Study. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (CASCON '19). IBM Corp., Riverton, NJ, USA.

  Download Publication
  Download Presentation

Listed below are publications that utilize our tools/datasets:

• Islem Saidani and Ali Ouni. 2021. Toward a Smell-aware Prediction Model for CI Build Failures. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Refactoring (IWoR 2021). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.
• B. H. P. Camara, M. A. G. Silva, A. T. Endo, S. R. Vergilio On the use of test smells for prediction of flaky tests. In Proceedings of the 6th Brazilian Symposium on Systematic and Automated Software Testing (SAST 21). https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.11781
• Kim, D.J., Chen, TH.(. & Yang, J. The secret life of test smells - an empirical study on test smell evolution and maintenance. Empir Software Eng 26, 100 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-021-09969-1
• Elvys Soares, Márcio Ribeiro, Guilherme Amaral, Rohit Gheyi, Leo Fernandes, Alessandro Garcia, Baldoino Fonseca, and André Santos. 2020. Refactoring Test Smells: A Perspective from Open-Source Developers. In Proceedings of the 5th Brazilian Symposium on Systematic and Automated Software Testing (SAST 20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 50–59. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3425174.3425212
• Panichella, A., Panichella, S., Fraser, G., Sawant, A. A., & Hellendoorn, V. J. (Accepted/In press). Revisiting Test Smells in Automatically Generated Tests: Limitations, Pitfalls, and Opportunities. In 36th IEEE The International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2020) IEEE. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4000852
• G. Fraser, A. Gambi and J. M. Rojas, "Teaching Software Testing with the Code Defenders Testing Game: Experiences and Improvements," 2020 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (ICSTW), Porto, Portugal, 2020, pp. 461-464, doi: 10.1109/ICSTW50294.2020.00082.
• Dong Jae Kim. 2020. An Empirical Study on the Evolution of Test Smell. In Proceedings of ICSE 2020: the 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2020). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/1122445.1122456
• Spadini, Davide, Martin Schvarcbacher, Ana-Maria Oprescu, Magiel Bruntink, and Alberto Bacchelli. 2020. Investigating Severity Thresholds for Test Smells. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2020).
• Schvarcbacher, M., Spadini, D., Bruntink, M., & Oprescu, A. (2019). Investigating developer perception on test smells using better code hub - Work in progress -. In A. Etien (Ed.), SATTOSE 2019 Seminar Series on Advanced Techniques & Tools for Software Evolution: Proceedings of the Seminar Series on Advanced Techniques & Tools for Software Evolution (SATTOSE 2019) (pp. 1-6). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2510). CEUR-WS.org.

Is the above list missing a publication? Please let us know, and we will be happy to update the list!