Publications

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

• 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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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Listed below are publications that utilize our tools/datasets:

• 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.