Xavier Devroey, Ph.D.

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Xavier Devroey

Xavier Devroey

Postdoctoral Researcher

Delft University of Technology

About me

My name is Xavier Devroey. I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Software Engineering Research Group (SERG) of the Delft University of Technology. Between 2017 and 2019, I was involved in the Big Software on the Run 3TU project (BSR) and the Software Testing Amplification European project (STAMP). Prior, I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Namur in Belgium, where I defended my thesis, entitled Software Product Line Behavioural Model-Based Testing, in August 2017.

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

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2017

    University of Namur, Belgium

  • Master in Computer Science, 2010

    University of Namur, Belgium

  • Bachelor Analyst Programmer, 2007

    Haute Ecole de Bruxelles, Belgium

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Postodoctoral researcher

Delft University of Technology

Oct 2017 – Present 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.
 
 
 
 
 

Developer

Atos Worldline

Sep 2010 – Aug 2011 Brussels, Belgium

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).

PDF Code Project Project Video DOI Replication package

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

PDF Code Dataset Project Project Video DOI Replication package

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).

PDF Code Dataset Project Video DOI Replication package

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).

PDF Code Project Slides DOI Replication package

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).

PDF Project Project DOI

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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Recent Posts

TestEd 2020

Last Wednesday (28/10/2020), I attended the first edition of the Software Testing Education Workshop, co-located with ICST 2020. The workshop was initially supposed to be held in Porto. Unfortunately, with the COVID-19 pandemic and the travel restrictions, ICST and all the workshops had to be held over Zoom.
Oct 31, 2020 2 min read Tips
TestEd 2020

SSBSE 2020 Best Paper Award

Last Thursday (08/10/2020), we received a best paper award for our paper entitled It is not Only About Control Dependent Nodes: Basic Block Coverage for Search-Based Crash Reproduction. In this paper, we revisit the approach level and branch distance heuristics widely used for white-box test generation.
Oct 11, 2020 1 min read Research results
SSBSE 2020 Best Paper Award

Pandemic Programming

Depuis le début de l’année 2020, la pandémie de COVID-19 a forcé les développeurs du monde entiers à travailler depuis leurs domiciles. Cependant, on sait très peu de choses sur les impacts du télétravail en période de crise.
Xavier Devroey
May 11, 2020 2 min read Research results
Pandemic Programming

Tips and resources to start writing

Writing is an essential aspect of the life of a researcher. Whether it is a paper for a journal, a conference, or a workshop, a thesis, a deliverable, or a blog post, we spend hours of our life writing.
Xavier Devroey
Jul 12, 2019 4 min read Tips

Popular Topics

Artificial Intelligence Case Study Crash Reproduction Education Event-B Feature Model Featured Transition Systems KAOS Model-Based Testing Model-Checking Mutation Testing Pandemic Programming Prioritization Search-Based Software Testing Software Engineering Software Product Line Software Product Line Testing Software Testing Statistical Testing Variability-Intensive System

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