Remaining Fall Digital Education Reading Group Meetings
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Cliff Shaffer
Nov 2, 2022, 5:15:35 PM11/2/22
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We are planning two more reading group meetings for this semester.
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1) Wednesday, November 9 @ 4:00. Zoom: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/my/shaffer
This will be something of a special event: Please take a look at https://dl-acm-org.ezproxy.lib.vt.edu/doi/pdf/10.1145/3017680.3017800, which presents My Digital Hand. We are hoping to deploy MDH in our department. But getting this to become part of our departmental culture will not be easy. So we hope to get as many interested people as possible together to discuss our prospects for actual deployment, beginning in the Spring 2023 semester.
2) Tuesday, November 15 @ 2:00
Ri will present a paper related to Mutation Testing. Ri will follow up with a link to the paper.
Dr. Cliff Shaffer
Professor and Associate Department Head for Graduate Studies
Department of Computer Science Phone: (540) 231-4354
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 WWW: www.cs.vt.edu/~shaffer
Department of Computer Science Phone: (540) 231-4354
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 WWW: www.cs.vt.edu/~shaffer
Rifat Sabbir Mansur
Nov 13, 2022, 7:01:57 AM11/13/22
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Hello everyone!
We will have our final reading group meeting of the semester on Tuesday, November 15, 2022 @ 2:00 PM Eastern Time
We will go over the following paper on mutation testing and self/peer assessment published in ICSE-JSEET '21.
Title: Mutation testing and self/peer assessment: analyzing their effect on students in a software testing course
Abstract: Testing is a crucial activity in the development of software systems. With the increasing complexity of software projects, the industry requires incorporating graduates with adequate testing skills and preparation in this field. A challenge in software testing education is to make students perceive the benefits of writing tests and assess their quality with advanced testing techniques. In this paper, we present an experience integrating both mutation testing and self/peer assessment ---two of the most used techniques to that end in the past--- into a software testing course during three years. This experience allowed us to analyze the effect of applying these strategies on the students' perception of their manually-written test suites. Noticeably, the computation of the mutation score significantly undermined the initial expectations they had on the developed test suites. Also, the application of peer testing helped them estimate the relative quality of two comparable test suites, as we found a notable correspondence with their respective mutation coverage. Besides, a more in-depth analysis revealed that the students' test suites with more test cases did not always achieve the highest scores, that they found more readable their own tests, and that they tended to cover the basic operations while forgetting about more advanced features. An opinion survey confirmed the impact that the use of mutants had on their perception about testing, and they mostly supported paying a higher level of attention to testing concepts in software engineering degree plans.
Hoping to discuss the paper on Tuesday.
Best regards,
~ Ri
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Rifat Sabbir Mansur
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Rifat Sabbir Mansur
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Ph.D. Candidate
Dept. of Computer Science
Virginia Tech
Graduate Representative, Diversity Committee, CS, Virginia TechDept. of Computer Science
Virginia Tech
President, ABS@VT, 2019-2020
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Rifat Sabbir Mansur
Nov 13, 2022, 3:20:35 PM11/13/22
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Quick update to the link of the paper through VT library proxy.
Title: Mutation testing and self/peer assessment: analyzing their effect on students in a software testing course
Paper Link via VT Library: https://dl-acm-org.ezproxy.lib.vt.edu/doi/pdf/10.1109/ICSE-SEET52601.2021.00033
See you all on Tuesday! :)
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