Test Smells

Do the Test Smells Assertion Roulette and Eager Test Impact Students' Troubleshooting and Debugging Capabilities?
Educating students about software testing practices is integral to the curricula of many computer science-related courses and typically …
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Do the Test Smells Assertion Roulette and Eager Test Impact Students' Troubleshooting and Debugging Capabilities?
To ensure the quality of a software system, developers perform an activity known as unit testing, where they write code (known as test …
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Test Smell Detection Tools: A Systematic Mapping Study
Test smells are defined as sub-optimal design choices developers make when implementing test cases. Hence, similar to code smells, the …
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On the Distribution of "Simple Stupid Bugs" in Unit Test Files: An Exploratory Study
A key aspect of ensuring the quality of a software system is the practice of unit testing. Through unit tests, developers verify the …
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tsDetect: An Open Source Test Smells Detection Tool
The test code, just like production source code, is subject to bad design and programming practices, also known as smells. The presence …
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An Exploratory Study on the Refactoring of Unit Test Files in Android Applications
An essential activity of software maintenance is the refactoring of source code. Refactoring operations enable developers to take …
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On the Distribution of Test Smells in Open Source Android Applications: An Exploratory Study
The impact of bad programming practices, such as code smells, in production code has been the focus of numerous studies in software …
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