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EDITORIAL

Test infrastructure and environment

This issue contains two papers. These papers focus on test infrastructure and testing environment, respectively.
Falling into the category of Software Note, the first paper, “JUGE: An infrastructure for benchmarking Java unit
test generators” by Xavier Devroey, Alessio Gambi, Juan Pablo Galeotti, René Just, Fitsum Kifetew, Annibale Pani-
chella and Sebastiano Panichella, presents JUnit Generation Benchmarking Infrastructure (JUGE), which supports test
generators (such as search-based, random-based and symbolic execution) by automating the production of unit tests for
validation, regression testing, fault localization and so on. JUGE aims to reduce the overall benchmarking effort, ease
the comparison of multiple generators and enhance the knowledge transfer between academia and industry. JUGE was
used and evolved during multiple editions of a unit testing tool competition since 2013. The authors discuss the expected
impact of JUGE in improving the knowledge transfer on tools and approaches for test generation between academia
and industry (recommended by Marc Roper).
Falling into the typical category of Research Article, the second paper, “Test environments for large-scale software
systems—An industrial study of intrinsic and extrinsic success factors” by Torvald Mårtensson, Göran Ancher and
Daniel Ståhl, presents a study that investigates the characteristics of a test environment to support an organisation’s
testing objectives. The study includes a series of interviews with 30 individuals, a series of focus groups with 31 individ-
uals and a cross-company workshop with 30 participants from five large-scale companies in different industry segments.
The study findings reveal a list of success factors, including (1) characteristics and capabilities existing within a test
environment (intrinsic success factors) and (2) properties not inherent to the test environment, but still vital for a suc-
cessfully implemented test environment (extrinsic success factors). All the five companies included in the study well
acknowledge the reported list of intrinsic and extrinsic success factors (recommended by Per Runeson).

Yves Le Traon 1
Tao Xie 2
1
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
2
School of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China

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