Publications on Test Suite Maintenance

Beyond Test Flakiness: A Manifesto for a Holistic Approach to Test Suite Health
P McMinn, MF Roslan, and GM Kapfhammer
Flaky Tests Workshop (FTW), 2025
[PDF]
[DOI]
[]
@inproceedings{McMinn2025,
  author    = "McMinn, Phil and Roslan, Muhammad Firhard and Kapfhammer, Gregory M.",
  title     = "Beyond Test Flakiness: A Manifesto for a Holistic Approach to Test Suite Health",
  booktitle = "Flaky Tests Workshop (FTW)",
  year      = "2025",
  pages     = "9--10",
  publisher = "IEEE",
  doi       = "10.1109/FTW66604.2025.00007"
}

Viscount: A Direct Method Call Coverage Tool for Java
MF Roslan, JM Rojas, and P McMinn
International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 2024
[PDF]
[DOI]
[]
@inproceedings{Roslan2024b,
  author    = "Roslan, Muhammad Firhard and Rojas, Jos{\'e} Miguel and McMinn, Phil",
  title     = "{Viscount}: A Direct Method Call Coverage Tool for {Java}",
  booktitle = "International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)",
  year      = "2024",
  pages     = "908--912",
  publisher = "IEEE",
  doi       = "10.1109/ICSME58944.2024.00101"
}

Private — Keep Out? Understanding How Developers Account for Code Visibility in Unit Testing
MF Roslan, JM Rojas, and P McMinn
International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 2024
[PDF]
[DOI]
[]
@inproceedings{Roslan2024,
  author    = "Roslan, Muhammad Firhard and Rojas, Jos{\'e} Miguel and McMinn, Phil",
  title     = "Private --- Keep Out? Understanding How Developers Account for Code Visibility in
               Unit Testing",
  booktitle = "International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)",
  year      = "2024",
  pages     = "312--324",
  publisher = "IEEE",
  doi       = "10.1109/ICSME58944.2024.00037"
}

An Empirical Comparison of EvoSuite and DSpot for Improving Developer-Written Test Suites With Respect to Mutation Score
MF Roslan, JM Rojas, and P McMinn
International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE), 2022
[PDF]
[DOI]
[]
@inproceedings{Roslan2022,
  author    = "Roslan, Muhammad Firhard and Rojas, Jos{\'e} Miguel and McMinn, Phil",
  title     = "An Empirical Comparison of {EvoSuite} and {DSpot} for Improving Developer-Written
               Test Suites With Respect to Mutation Score",
  booktitle = "International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE)",
  year      = "2022",
  pages     = "19--34",
  publisher = "Springer",
  series    = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
  volume    = "13711",
  doi       = "10.1007/978-3-031-21251-2_2"
}

Disposable Testing: Avoiding Maintenance of Generated Unit Tests by Throwing Them Away
S Shamshiri, J Campos, G Fraser, and P McMinn
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2017
[PDF]
[DOI]
[]
@inproceedings{Shamshiri2017,
  author    = "Shamshiri, Sina and Campos, Jos{\'e} and Fraser, Gordon and McMinn, Phil",
  title     = "Disposable Testing: Avoiding Maintenance of Generated Unit Tests by Throwing Them
               Away",
  booktitle = "International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)",
  year      = "2017",
  pages     = "207--209",
  publisher = "IEEE",
  doi       = "10.1109/ICSE-C.2017.100"
}