International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS)

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a paradigm based on the interaction between intelligent devices (things) and physical and/or virtual resources through the Internet. Thus, applications in this domain may become more prone to failures. In this scenario, ...

Context: Mutation testing is effective in producing high quality test sets. On the downside, it is expensive due to factors like the large number of mutants and the need for manual analysis tasks. Over time, researchers devised several ways of reducing ...

Mutation testing is a fault-based criterion that helps testers to evaluate the adequacy of a test set applied to a given program. In order to do that, mutation operators are applied to the software being tested, creating versions with few syntactic ...

A growing number of test data generation techniques and tools for Android applications (apps) has been proposed in the last years. As a consequence, a demand for evaluations comparing such tools has emerged. However, we find few studies only dedicated ...

While the literature acknowledges that mobile apps present different testing challenges and automated solutions have been pursued, it lacks a better understanding of how pervasive practices of manual testing (namely Exploratory Testing - ET) can be more ...

Software testing is an essential activity for quality assurance, but, it is an error-prone and effort consuming task when conducted manually. Because of this, the use of automated tools is fundamental, as well as, the evaluation of these tools in ...

[Background]: A variety of software testing techniques have been published by the academia in the last years, however, the industry rarely embraces their use. The transference of knowledge between academia and industry is a challenge which is mainly ...

One of the most challenging task of testing activity is the generation of test cases/data. While there is significant amount of studies in this regard, there is still need to move towards approaches that can generate test case/data based only on source ...

In the last decades, different kinds of automated support for testing have emerged in the open-source community. However, we still have limited evidence about the adoption level of such automated support in practice, considering different programming ...