Understandable Test Generation Through Capture/Replay and LLMs

Automatic unit test generators, particularly search-based software testing (SBST) tools such as EvoSuite, efficiently generate unit test suites with acceptable coverage. Although this removes the burden of writing unit tests from developers, these generated tests often pose challenges in terms of comprehension for developers. In my doctoral...

Performance of Transformer Models in Readability Assessment

Transformer models have proven to be effective tools when used for determining the readability of texts. Models based on pre-trained architectures such as BERT, RoBERTa, and BART, as well as ReadNet, a transformer model which is dedicated to readability assessment, have shown some very promising results. However, there is a lack of research...

Leesbaarheid: An Empirical Exploration of the Applicability of Dutch Traditional Readability Formulas to Texts Targeting Children

Readability plays a vital role in the transfer of knowledge or information. This is especially true for children who are more than anyone gaining new knowledge every day, yet their reading abilities are still in active development. Although readability assessment of children's literature is an active topic of research in many different languages...

The Words are not Enough: An Investigation into the Viability of Textual Complexity as a Feature for Recommendation Systems

Reading is an essential skill for any child to learn, and finding enjoyment in it can greatly contribute to developing proper reading comprehension. Finding the books they like could prove to be difficult. Utilizing collaborative filtering recommender systems to recommend books to children is a tricky task, the lack of user feedback makes it...

Generating Understandable Unit Tests through End-to-End Test Scenario Carving

Automatic unit test generators such as EvoSuite are able to automatically generate unit test suites with high coverage. This removes the burden of writing unit tests from developers, but the generated tests are often difficult to understand for them. In this paper, we introduce the MicroTestCarver approach that generates unit tests starting from...

Improving mathematics assessment readability: Do large language models help?

Background: Readability metrics provide us with an objective and efficient way to assess the quality of educational texts. We can use the readability measures for finding assessment items that are difficult to read for a given grade level. Hard-to-read math word problems can put some students at a disadvantage if they are behind in their...

Test Code Comprehension: Insights from an Eye Tracker

Software maintenance is an essential and time-consuming task during the software development cycle. Readability of test code is a crucial element for performing programming tasks, such as testing, bug fixing and maintaining code. Hence poorly written tests are difficult to maintain and lose their value to developers. In order to overcome this...

Eye readable metal hydride based hydrogen tape sensor for health applications

Using the change in the intrinsic optical properties of YMg-based thin films upon exposure to hydrogen, we observe the presence of hydrogen at concentrations as low as 20 ppm just by a change in color. The eye-visible color change circumvents the use of any electronics in this device, thereby making it an inexpensive H2 detector. The detector...