ISSTA 2019
Mon 15 - Fri 19 July 2019 Beijing, China
Tue 16 Jul 2019 11:40 - 12:00 at Meeting Room 2 - Session 2

Unit tests form the first defensive line against the introduction of bugs in software systems. Therefore, their quality is of a paramount importance to produce robust and reliable software. To assess test quality, many organizations relies on metrics like code and mutation coverage. However, they are not always optimal to fulfill such a purpose. In my research, I want to make mutation testing scalable by devising a lightweight approach to estimate test effectiveness. Moreover, I plan to introduce a new metric measuring test focus—as a proxy for the effort needed by developers to understand and maintain a test— that both complements code coverage to assess test quality and can be used to drive automated test case generation of higher quality tests.

I am a PhD student at University of Zürich, into the s.e.a.l. lead by Prof. Harald Gall. My main research interests include Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE), with a main focus on Seach-Based Software Testing (SBST), Software maintenance and evolution and Empirical Software Engineeering.

Tue 16 Jul

Displayed time zone: Beijing, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Urumqi change

11:00 - 12:30
11:00
20m
Doctoral symposium paper
Continuous Software Performance Assessment
Doctoral Symposium
Christoph Laaber University of Zurich
DOI Pre-print
11:20
20m
Doctoral symposium paper
Conditional Dynamic Partial Order Reduction and Optimality Results
Doctoral Symposium
Miguel Isabel Complutense University of Madrid
11:40
20m
Doctoral symposium paper
A New Dimension of Test Quality: Assessing and Generating Higher Quality Unit Test Cases
Doctoral Symposium
Giovanni Grano University of Zurich
DOI Pre-print
12:00
30m
Talk
Planning and choosing research projects during PhD studies
Doctoral Symposium
Abhik Roychoudhury National University of Singapore