Papers

Papers

Welcome to my research papers page. Here, you will find a collection of my published and ongoing research work in Software Testing, particularly focusing on diversity-based testing principles.

Working Papers

I am currently working on the following research:

• Targeting Stubborn Mutants: A Study of Test Selection Strategies Killing Stubborn Mutants

More details will be shared as the research progresses.

Published Papers

Below is a selection of my published research papers:

• Elgendy Islam T., Robert M. Hierons, and Phil McMinn. “Empirically Evaluating the Use of Bytecode for Diversity-Based Test Case Prioritisation.” Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE), 2025.

• Elgendy Islam T., Robert M. Hierons, and Phil McMinn. “A Systematic Mapping Study of the Metrics, Uses and Subjects of Diversity‐Based Testing Techniques.” Software Testing, Verification and Reliability 35.2: e1914, 2025.

• Elgendy Islam, Robert Hierons, and Phil McMinn. “Evaluating String Distance Metrics for Reducing Automatically Generated Test Suites.” Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automation of Software Test (AST 2024), 2024.

• Elgendy Islam T., Robert M. Hierons, and Phil McMinn. “A Survey of the Metrics, Uses, and Subjects of Diversity-Based Techniques in Software Testing.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.09714, 2023.

• Elgendy Islam T., Moheb R. Girgis, and Adel A. Sewisy. “A GA-based Approach to Automatic Test Data Generation for ASP.NET Web Applications.” IAENG International Journal of Computer Science 47.3: 557-564, 2020.

• Elgendy Islam T., Moheb R. Girgis, and Adel A. Sewisy. “An Automated Tool for Data Flow Testing of ASP.NET Web Applications.” Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences 14.4: 679-691, 2020.

Access My Papers

My survey paper on diversity-based testing techniques is available on ResearchGate.

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