week 53 - Special edition 2024

Last year, the special edition brought insights on the content that was shared through 2023. In this edition, we will delve into what has been shared in 2024.

What is new in comparison to 2023?

This year’s edition highlights researchers incorporating LLMs to assist developers across a wide range of tasks, with a particular focus on TDD and test smells. A dedicated section includes the papers shared on these topics.

In comparison to 2023, references to test smells and agile practices have increased, indicating a shift towards broader subjects rather than specific ones. However, TDD has maintained its consistent trend over the years.

Total papers 2023: 20

Total papers 2024: 23

This year’s edition features a dedicated section on LLMs and testing, reflecting the growing popularity of this subject among researchers. Topics like TDD and its related areas, such as refactoring, test smells, and test doubles, have begun exploring the potential applications of LLMs.

DevOps and teams

• week 32 - Knowledge and mindset in software development and Assessing Incremental Testing Practices and Their Impact on Project Outcomes
• week 33 - DevOps maturity model, How Students Unit Test and Developers perception on the severity of test smells
• week 36 - DevOps Metrics and KPIs, Revisit security in the era of DevOps and developers' perception on software testability
• week 35 - An Investigation of How Developers Spend Their Time, Business vs Development Plan Made by the Software Architecture and PyDriller

LLMs and testing

• week 37 - Generative AI to Generate Test Data Generators, Sentimental Stack Overflow Posts analysis and The readability of test code
• week 38 - ChatGPT Usage in Software Engineering Practice and The State of the Practice in Software Testing
• week 39 - The Social Dynamics of Pair Programming, Benefits of Code Inspection with Test-Driven Development and Effect of SOLID Design
• week 40 - GitHub Copilot Asset or Liability? How do annotations affect Java code readability and CMMI for agile software development
• week41 - GenAI for TDD, Collaboration in Pair Programming and refactoring opportunities by software antipattern detection
• week42 - Chatbot for Exploratory Testing, code smells detection using machine learning and Does It Really Matter to Test-First or to Test-Last?
• week46 - Evaluating Large Language Models in Detecting Test Smells and Code Reviews Patterns and Anti-patterns

TDD

• week43 - Most Common Mistakes in TDD Practice and Reflections on the REST architectural style
• week44 - Highlights in Evidence-Based Software Engineering and Ethnographically Study in the Context of Test Driven Development
• week45 - How Do Developers Structure Unit Test Cases and The role of slicing in test-driven development
• week47 - Which Combination of Test Can Predict Success? and the relationship between unit test coverage and maintainability of production code
• week48 - Technical debt can damage moral responsibility, LLM for Understandability of Generated Unit Tests and Mimicking Production Behavior with Mock
• week49 - Monitoring Continuous Integration Practices, Test Smells + Gamification and Unit Test Generation
• week 50 - Agile vs Waterfall, Matching Production and Test Files and Test smells in LLM-Generated Unit Tests
• week 51 - why developers implement OS-specific tests, does Treatment Adherence Impact in TDD and A framework for compliance rules for TDD
• week 52 - Test Code Refactoring Unveiled, An Improvement to TDD Efficiency and Large Language Models in Detecting Test Smells

Smells

• week 30 - Teams in the Quest for Continuous Delivery, Agile smells and test smells in the wild
• week 31 - Test smell refactoring revisited and To Mock or Not To Mock?
• week 34 - Effect of Batch Refactoring on Code Smells, a gamified tool to improve unit test teaching and observation-based unit test generation at Meta