Meet the People Behind Test FLARE

Prof. Phil McMinn iis well-known for his work in search-based software engineering (SBSE) and testing. His 2004 survey of search-based test data generation in the STVR journal is the most cited paper in software testing since 1992, while his 2010 IEEE TSE paper comparing search algorithms for test data generation is the most cited paper in software performance since 2010. He was named one of the top 15 most impactful mid-career software engineering researchers worldwide for 2010-2017, and has won seven best/distinguished paper awards at ASE, GECCO, ICST, ISSTA and SSBSE.

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Dr. Owain Parry is an early-career researcher with a proven track record in the field of flaky tests. He received his PhD in 2023 with a thesis on flaky tests titled Understanding and Mitigating Flaky Software Test Cases. He is the first author of six published papers on the topic, including a systematic literature survey of flaky tests that appeared in the ACM TOSEM journal.

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Dr. Michael Foster is a Research Software Engineer at the University of Sheffield. He is working with the researchers to ensure that the software outputs of the project are of the highest quality. In particular, he is incorporating the techniques developed in the project into a pytest extension to help industry practitioners tackle flaky tests.

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Is a current PhD student at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on understanding and mitigating flaky tests—tests that produce inconsistent results without changes to the code.