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ICST 2022
Mon 4 - Fri 8 April 2022
Wed 6 Apr 2022 17:30 - 17:45 at Margaret Hamilton - ICST Empirical Study Chair(s): Mohammad Reza Mousavi

Non-deterministically passing and failing test cases, so called flaky tests, have recently become a focus area of software engineering research. While this research focus has been met with some enthusiastic endorsement from industry, prior work nevertheless mostly studied flakiness using a code-centric approach by mining software repositories. What data extracted from software repositories cannot tell us, however, is how developers perceive flakiness: How prevalent is test flakiness in developers’ daily routine, how does it affect them, and most importantly: What do they want us researchers to do about it? To answer these questions we surveyed 335 professional software developers and testers in different domains. The survey respondents confirm that flaky tests are a common and serious problem, thus reinforcing ongoing research on flaky test detection. Developers are less worried about the computational costs caused by re-running tests, but more about the loss of trust in the test outcomes. Therefore, they would like to have IDE plugins to detect flaky code as well as better visualizations of the problem, particularly dashboards showing test outcomes over time; they also wish for more training and information on flakiness. These important aspects will require the attention of researchers as well as tool developers.

Wed 6 Apr

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16:45 - 18:00
ICST Empirical StudyJournal-First Papers / Research Papers at Margaret Hamilton
Chair(s): Mohammad Reza Mousavi King's College London
16:45
15m
Talk
An experimental and practical study on the equivalent mutant connection: An evolutionary approach
Journal-First Papers
Pedro Delgado-Pérez Universidad de Cádiz, Francisco Chicano University of Malaga
Link to publication DOI
17:00
15m
Talk
A Qualitative Study on the Sources, Impacts, and Mitigation Strategies of Flaky Tests
Research Papers
Sarra Habchi University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Guillaume Haben University of Luxembourg, Mike Papadakis University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Maxime Cordy University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Yves Le Traon University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Pre-print
17:15
15m
Talk
As Code Testing: Characterizing Test Quality in Open Source Ansible Development
Research Papers
Mohammed Mehedi Hasan Independent University, Akond Rahman Tennessee Tech University
Pre-print File Attached
17:30
15m
Talk
A Survey on How Test Flakiness Affects Developers and What Support They Need To Address It
Research Papers
Martin Gruber BMW Group, University of Passau, Gordon Fraser University of Passau
Pre-print
17:45
15m
Live Q&A
Discussion and Q&A
Research Papers