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This development comes from the Spirals team, a joint team between Inria and the University of Lille within UMR 9189, CNRS-Centrale Lille-University of Lille, CRIStAL.

Facebook engineers are investigating code automation using Artificial Intelligence in Sapienz and mutation-based fix in SapFix.
Both tools are designed to speed up the deployment of new software through distributed codes that are pre-tested and as stable as possible.
According to a recent article, they are intended for open source release in the future, once additional engineering work is completed, but no date is mentioned.

Peter Spragins, Google Software Engineer and Teaching Assistant at UCSD Math Department, is summarizing almost four years of experience in running software tests at scale, with several colleagues in Mountain View (California).
"The two key numbers for the system's performance are sensitivity, the percentage of failing tests we actually execute, and specificity, the percentage of passing tests we actually skip. The two numbers go hand in hand."
Discover how Machine Learning is now part of the Google process of committing code. Read his article about Efficacy Presubmit Service

A collaboration between KTH, Saab and Ericsson, the CASTOR Software Research Center was inaugurated today at Östermalm (Sweden), with over 50 guests including KTH professors, researchers, industry representatives and employees from the French embassy and Vinnova. 

Prof. Benoit Baudry underlined the aim of delivering outstanding research in software engineering and also expressed his wishes to increase collaboration through more co-developments of open source software tools. The goal is also to increase the number of industry PhD students to run the core research activities of the center, and contributing to reducing the cultural gap that currently exists when referring to software technology between the industry and the lab.

Ingemar Söderquist (Saab) and Diarmuid Corcoran (Ericsson) shared their vision about the challenges and opportunities for software technology in their respective application areas (defense and telecom).

Robert Feldt, Professor of Software Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, talked about his experience for setting up collaborations with the industry on software research in Sweden. 

Kristina Höök, Professor in Interaction Design at KTH, presented her insights after having led for more than 10 years the “Mobile Life” research center at KTH.

The official opening was made by Pontus de Laval – CTO SAAB, Dr. Magnus Frodigh – Acting Head of Research at Ericsson, and Prof. Annika Trigell – KTH Vice-President for research, which followed by a reception dinner.

Check out the Castor Research Center inauguration presentations and photos 

Automatically detecting flaky tests, DeFlaker provides a new milestone in order to cope with them in a principled way.
There is no need to re-run the failed tests anymore. 

In the STAMP project, we follow a similar philosophy: we target major testing problems (missing assertions, crash reproduction) and we invent principled tools that target those problems and that are evaluated on large and complex software projects. These projects are both coming from the STAMP project partners and from international open source members from the OW2 community.

Place: Montpellier Corum Conference Center
Conference: ASE 2018
Instructors: Benoît Baudry (KTH), Vincent Massol (XWiki), Oscar Luis Vera Pérez (INRIA)

Let the CI spot the holes in tested code with Descartes tool

In this tutorial, we introduce the intriguing concept of pseudo-tested method, i.e. methods that are covered by the test suite, yet no test case fails when the method body is removed. We show that such methods can be found in mature, well-tested projects and we discuss some possible root causes. Attendants have the opportunity to experiment hands-on with our tool, called Descartes tool, which automatically detects pseudo-tested methods in Java projects.