The Impact of Test Case Clustering on Comprehending Automatically Generated Test Suites

Software testing, a critical phase in the software development lifecycle, is often hindered by the time-intensive and costly manual creation of test cases. While automating test case generation could mitigate these challenges, its adoption in the industry has been limited due to difficulties in comprehending the generated test cases. To address...

Empirical Study on Test Generation Using GitHub Copilot

Writing unit tests is a crucial task in the software development lifecycle, ensuring the correctness of the software developed. Due to its time-consuming and laborious nature, it is, however, often neglected by software engineers. Numerous automatic test generation tools have been devised to ease unit testing efforts, but these test generation...

SAD: State machine-based Anomaly Detection in User Behavior

Over the past centuries, cybercrime has constantly grown. Among the most popular attacks against companies are phishing emails that especially gained popularity for threat actors to use as a tool during the COVID-19 pandemic. By changing the working environment, most communication channels between employees shifted from personal conversations...

Empirical study of GANITE’s robustness to hidden confounders

An empirical study is performed exploring the sensitivity to hidden confounders of GANITE, a method for Individualized Treatment Effect (ITE) estimation. Most real world datasets do not measure all confounders and thus it is important to know how crucial this is in order to obtain comparable predictions. This is explored through the removal of...

From Trunk-Based to Merge Requests: A Field Study at Adyen

Many development models exist, but finding which one is the right for a specific project or software company is difficult. Every project has its requirements and might need its own development model. The most popular development models are trunk-based development and merge requests.<br/>There are no clear science-based guidelines on when to...

Towards Understanding How Developers Comprehend Tests

Developers spend the majority of their time and effort on reading and comprehending source code. In order to improve this process of program comprehension for developers, a numerous amount of existing studies have looked into understanding how developers approach it and factors of influence. However, less is known in the field about how...

Improving Code Quality in Agile Software Development

Agile software development is a popular approach for developing software. Another important topic of research in software engineering is code quality. Unfortunately, a minimal amount of extensive research has been done on how these two influence each other. The goal of this study is therefore to explore the connection between these two using a...