Phil McMinn
@philmcminn
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Professor of Software Engineering, The University of Sheffield
Sheffield, UK
Joined September 2009
Submit to the Flaky Test Workshop @ ICSE! Extended abstracts and short/long papers welcome.
Are you a researcher or practitioner working on solutions to flaky tests? Then consider submitting to the International Flaky Test Workshop (FTW) at ICSE 2024. https://t.co/SuOeSqU98H
#flakytests #icse2024
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I have a funded PhD position to start October 2025 on automatic detection, reproduction and fixing of flaky software tests. More information here: https://t.co/nQ7IdCdfa6 If interested, please get in touch by email as detailed on the above web page.
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£770m. That’s the economic benefit international students contributed to the city of Sheffield in the 2021-2 academic year. We’re calling on the government to recognise the economic, social and cultural value of international students and remove them from net migration figures.
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Calling all developers who write unit tests! Please would you help my PhD student Firhard Roslan by filling out his questionnaire on developer attitudes to testing private methods? It should take 10-20 mins to complete. Thanks! https://t.co/5eWEKWluPw
docs.google.com
Many programming languages distinguish methods of a class or module that are externally accessible to other classes/modules (a.k.a. "public" methods) from those that are not (e.g., "private" or...
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So great to hear my colleagues @oparry9 and @GregKapfhammer talking about our work on Flaky Tests.
talkpython.fm
We write tests to show us when there are problems with our code. But what if there are intermittent problems with the tests themselves? That can be big hassle. In this episode, we have Gregory...
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Owain Parry @oparry9 presenting work on flaky tests yesterday – thanks for a great week @icstconference!
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Interesting article on LLM prompting for code generation:
martinfowler.com
Generated knowledge and chain of thought prompting of an LLM can generate useful code.
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Greg Gay @Greg4cr presents his paper on mutation operator coupling to real faults @icstconference
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Great job @oparry9 on presenting our developer survey on flaky tests at @ICSEconf. Preprint here if you are interested: https://t.co/3fcqcZxXbc
#icse2022
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Delighted that my PhD student @oparry9's survey paper of Flaky Tests has appeared in TOSEM!
dl.acm.org
Tests that fail inconsistently, without changes to the code under test, are described as flaky. Flaky tests do not give a clear indication of the presence of software bugs and thus limit the reliab...
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Hey congrats to Parry et al. for their paper titled: "A Survey of Causes, Consequences, and Strategies for Addressing Flaky Tests" A comprehensive 75 pages paper accepted in the new survey track, within 7 months after the first submission, and soon in production
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If you're a software developer, please help my PhD student by completing his questionnaire about flaky tests!
Hello! Please take our short (15 min) survey on flaky tests. This will help me in my PhD, and your perspective can help inform future research. RTs for reach appreciated! https://t.co/OAJ7ZTJQ87
#FlakyTests #SoftwareTesting
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Imagine the Pandemic Without Computer Science https://t.co/fQXup83TBu
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My glasses just broke. Feels like an era of my life just ended. Me and those glasses, we had some great times.
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Congratulations to PhD student Ibrahim Althomali and Professor Phil McMinn of the Department who have been awarded an IEEE distinguished paper award:
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#SSBSE18 early-bird registration ends Aug 25! Make sure to register early to see our 10th anniversary celebration including keynotes from Mark Harman, Guillaume Beslon, and Enrique Alba. We also have great tutorials from Marouane Kessentini, Matías Martínez, and Gordon Fraser!
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