ICSE 2022 (series) / SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice /
Surveying the Developer Experience of Flaky Tests
Tue 10 May 2022 20:10 - 20:15 at ICSE room 2-even hours - Software Testing 5 Chair(s): Leonardo Sousa
Thu 12 May 2022 12:10 - 12:15 at ICSE room 3-even hours - Software Testing 14 Chair(s): Brittany Johnson
Thu 26 May 2022 11:05 - 11:10 at Room 301+302 - Papers 15: Software Testing 2 Chair(s): Rohan Padhye
Thu 12 May 2022 12:10 - 12:15 at ICSE room 3-even hours - Software Testing 14 Chair(s): Brittany Johnson
Thu 26 May 2022 11:05 - 11:10 at Room 301+302 - Papers 15: Software Testing 2 Chair(s): Rohan Padhye
Test cases that pass and fail without changes to the code under test are known as flaky. The past decade has seen increasing research interest in flaky tests, though little attention has been afforded to the views and experiences of software developers. In this study, we utilized a multi-source approach to obtain insights into how developers define flaky tests, their experiences of the impacts and causes of flaky tests, and the actions they take in response to them. To that end, we designed a literature-guided developer survey that we deployed on social media and received 170 responses. We also searched on StackOverflow and analyzed 38 threads relevant to flaky tests, offering a distinct perspective free of any self-reporting bias. Through a mixture of numerical and thematic analysis, our study reveals a number of findings, including (1) developers strongly agree that flaky tests hinder continuous integration; (2) developers who experience flaky tests more often may be more likely to ignore potentially genuine test failures; and (3) developers rate issues in setup and teardown to be the most common causes of flaky tests.
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12:00 - 13:00 | Software Testing 14Technical Track / Journal-First Papers / SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice at ICSE room 3-even hours Chair(s): Brittany Johnson George Mason University | ||
12:00 5mTalk | To What Extent Do DNN-based Image Classification Models Make Unreliable Inferences? Journal-First Papers Yongqiang TIAN The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; University of Waterloo, Shiqing Ma Rutgers University, Ming Wen Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Yepang Liu Southern University of Science and Technology, Shing-Chi Cheung Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Xiangyu Zhang Purdue University DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
12:05 5mTalk | Demystifying the Challenges and Benefits of Analyzing User-Reported Logs in Bug Reports Journal-First Papers An Ran Chen Concordia University, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen Concordia University, Shaowei Wang University of Manitoba Link to publication Media Attached | ||
12:10 5mTalk | Surveying the Developer Experience of Flaky Tests SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice Owain Parry The University of Sheffield, Gregory Kapfhammer Allegheny College, Michael Hilton Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Phil McMinn University of Sheffield Pre-print Media Attached | ||
12:15 5mTalk | Fuzzing Class Specifications Technical Track Facundo Molina University of Rio Cuarto and CONICET, Argentina, Marcelo d'Amorim Federal University of Pernambuco, Nazareno Aguirre University of Rio Cuarto and CONICET, Argentina Pre-print Media Attached | ||
12:20 5mTalk | Demystifying the Dependency Challenge in Kernel Fuzzing Technical Track Yu Hao University of California at Riverside, USA, Hang Zhang Georgia Institute of Technology, Guoren Li UC Riverside, Xingyun Du UC Riverside, Zhiyun Qian University of California at Riverside, USA, Ardalan Amiri Sani UC Irvine Pre-print Media Attached | ||
12:25 5mTalk | Natural Attack for Pre-trained Models of Code Technical Track Zhou Yang Singapore Management University, Jieke Shi Singapore Management University, Junda He Singapore Management University, David Lo Singapore Management University DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
Thu 26 MayDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
Thu 26 May
Displayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
11:00 - 12:30 | Papers 15: Software Testing 2Technical Track / SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice at Room 301+302 Chair(s): Rohan Padhye Carnegie Mellon University | ||
11:00 5mTalk | CONFETTI: Amplifying Concolic Guidance for Fuzzers Technical Track James Kukucka George Mason University, Luís Pina University of Illinois at Chicago, Paul Ammann George Mason University, USA, Jonathan Bell Northeastern University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:05 5mTalk | Surveying the Developer Experience of Flaky Tests SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice Owain Parry The University of Sheffield, Gregory Kapfhammer Allegheny College, Michael Hilton Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Phil McMinn University of Sheffield Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:10 5mTalk | Natural Attack for Pre-trained Models of Code Technical Track Zhou Yang Singapore Management University, Jieke Shi Singapore Management University, Junda He Singapore Management University, David Lo Singapore Management University DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:15 5mTalk | FADATest: Fast and Adaptive Performance Regression Testing of Dynamic Binary Translation Systems Technical Track Jin Wu Harbin Institute of Technology, Jian Dong Harbin Institute Of Technology, Ruili Fang University of Georgia, Wen Zhang University of Georgia, Wenwen Wang University of Georgia, Decheng Zuo Harbin Institute of Technology Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:20 5mTalk | Repairing Order-Dependent Flaky Tests via Test Generation Technical Track Chengpeng Li University of Texas at Austin, Chenguang Zhu University of Texas at Austin, Wenxi Wang University of Texas at Austin, August Shi University of Texas at Austin Link to publication DOI Media Attached | ||
11:25 5mTalk | BeDivFuzz: Integrating Behavioral Diversity into Generator-based Fuzzing Technical Track Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:30 5mTalk | Nessie: Automatically Testing JavaScript APIs with Asynchronous Callbacks Technical Track Ellen Arteca Northeastern University, Sebastian Harner University of Stuttgart, Michael Pradel University of Stuttgart, Frank Tip Northeastern University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:35 5mTalk | EAGLE: Creating Equivalent Graphs to Test Deep Learning Libraries Technical Track Jiannan Wang Purdue University, Thibaud Lutellier University of Waterloo, Shangshu Qian Purdue University, Hung Viet Pham University of Waterloo, Lin Tan Purdue University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
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Tue 10 May 2022 20:00 - 21:00 at ICSE room 2-even hours - Software Testing 5 Chair(s): Leonardo Sousa
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