Xavier Devroey, Ph.D.

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Xavier Devroey

Assistant Professor

University of Namur

About me

My name is Xavier Devroey. I am an assistant professor of software engineering at the Faculty of Computer Science of the University of Namur. My research goal is to advance the state-of-the-art and practice of automated test case generation. My main research interests include search-based and model-based software testing, test suite augmentation, DevOps, and variability-intensive systems.

Interests

Search-Based Software Testing
Model-Based Testing
Mutation Testing
Variability Modeling
Software Product Line Testing

Featured Publications

Pouria Derakhshanfar, Xavier Devroey, Gilles Perrouin, Andy Zaidman, Arie van Deursen (2020). Search-based Crash Reproduction using Behavioral Model Seeding. Software Testing, Verification and Reliability (STVR).

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Mozhan Soltani, Pouria Derakhshanfar, Xavier Devroey, Arie van Deursen (2020). A benchmark-based evaluation of search-based crash reproduction. Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE).

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Axel Halin, Alexandre Nuttinck, Mathieu Acher, Xavier Devroey, Gilles Perrouin, Benoit Baudry (2019). Test them all, is it worth it? Assessing configuration sampling on the JHipster Web development stack. Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE).

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Maria Kechagia, Xavier Devroey, Annibale Panichella, Georgios Gousios, Arie van Deursen (2019). Effective and efficient API misuse detection via exception propagation and search-based testing. Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA ‘19).

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Xavier Devroey, Gilles Perrouin, Maxime Cordy, Hamza Samih, Axel Legay, Pierre-Yves Schobbens, Patrick Heymans (2017). Statistical prioritization for software product line testing: an experience report. Software & Systems Modeling (SoSyM).

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Xavier Devroey, Gilles Perrouin, Mike Papadakis, Axel Legay, Pierre-Yves Schobbens, Patrick Heymans (2016). Featured model-based mutation analysis. Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE ‘16).

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Experience

Assistant professor

University of Namur

Sep 2021 – Present Namur, Belgium

I am an assistant professor of software engineering and testing.

Postodoctoral researcher

Delft University of Technology

Oct 2017 – Aug 2021 Delft, The Netherlands

I work on search-based test case generation and crash reproduction in the Software Engineering Research Group (SERG). I was involved in the EU Software Testing AMPlification (STAMP) and the 3TU Big Software on the Run (BSR) projects.

Postodoctoral researcher

University of Namur

Sep 2017 – Sep 2017 Namur, Belgium

Teaching assistant

University of Namur

Sep 2011 – Aug 2017 Namur, Belgium

As a Ph.D. student, I devoted half of my time to research on Software Product Line Behavioural Model-Based Testing and the other half to teaching and service.