Testify Research

About

Testify is a company that values academic achievement and research contributions, and we encourage everyone in the company to help develop the field of software testing through such work. A significant portion of our people has a PhD in software testing.

Research directions

Our people do research within the following areas:

Model-based testing
Machine learning-based test data generation
Search-based software testing
Empirical software engineering
Software product line engineering
Evolutionary computation
Cyber-physical systems

Research projects

Some of the research projects our people have been involved in are:

“A Model-Based Approach to Generate Dynamic Synthetic Test Data” – Industrial PhD project, the University of Oslo
“Simulation-Based Testing of Highly Configurable Cyber-Physical Systems: Automation, Optimization and Debugging” – Mondragon university, Spain
“Automatisert, modellbasert testing med ecFeed PRO” – Skattefunn 2019 – Norges Forskningsråd
“Automatisert, modellbasert testing med ecFeed” – Skattefunn 2017-2018 – Norges Forskningsråd
“Approaches for Test Oracle generation in ecFeed” – Virkemiddel for regional FoU og innovasjon (VRI), 2017 – Simula Research Laboratory

Organizing activities

Testifiers contribute to the organizing of academic and industrial conferences, workshops and other events world wide. Our latest activites:

2021: Hager Debech & Minh Nguyen – Member of Organizing Committee – ODIN 2021
2020: Hager Debech & Minh Nguyen – Member of Organizing Committee – ODIN 2020
2019: Hager Debech & Minh Nguyen – Member of Organizing Committee – ODIN 2019
2019: Minh Nguyen – Program Chair – ODIN 2019
2019: Shuai Wang – Program Chair & Member of Program Committee – 15th Workshop on Advances in Model Based Testing (A-MOST) 2019
2012: Erik Arisholm – Member of Program Committee – IEEE International Conference on Software Testing 2012
Minh Nguyen – Board Member – DND Software Testing Østlandet

Awards

Awards won by Testifiers in the course of their work:

Razhieh Behjati – Role Model 2019 – Tech Women Norway
Chao Tan – Best PhD oral presentation for ICST 2019 doctoral symposium
Erik Arisholm – Simula Innovation Award 2012

Research collaboration

Testify collaborates with universities and research institutes. Some of the topics and collaboration partners are:

Shuai Wang & Mondragon University, Spain (Aitor Arrieta, lecturer/researcher) – Highly-configurable cyber physical system testing
Testify & Simula Research Laboratory – Approaches for Test Oracle generation in ecFeed

Research publications

Testifiers produce research that is publicized in various conferences and journals. Here is a list of the most recent works:

A. Arrieta, S. Wang, G. Sagardui, U. Markiegi, L. Etxeberria and A. Arruabarrena. Pareto efficient multi-objective black-box test case selection for simulation-based testing. Information and Software Technology, vol 114, pp. 137-154, 2019.
D. Pradhan, S. Wang, S. Ali, T. Yue and M. Liaaen. Employing Rule Mining and Multi-Objective Search for Dynamic Test Case Prioritization. Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), vol 153, pp. 86-104, 2019.
D. Pradhan, S. Wang, S. Ali, T. Yue and M. Liaaen. Search-Based Test Case Implantation for Testing Untested Configurations. Information and Software Technology, vol 111, pp. 22-36, 2019.
Tan, Chao; Behjati, Razieh; Arisholm, Erik. A model-based approach to generate dynamic synthetic test data: A conceptual model. In: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (ICSTW). IEEE, 2019. p. 11-14.
Tan, Chao. A Model-Based Approach to Generate Dynamic Synthetic Test Data. In: 2019 12th IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification (ICST). IEEE, 2019. p. 495-497.
Razieh Behjati, Erik Arisholm, Margrethe M. Bedregal, and Chao Tan. 2019. Synthetic test data generation using recurrent neural networks: a position paper. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Realizing Artificial Intelligence Synergies in Software Engineering (RAISE ’19). IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 22-27.
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Presentations

We regularly present at conferences, seminars, workshops and other events. Here is a list of the most recent appearances by Testifiers on such occasions:

2023-09-19: Erik Rogstad – Test-Norge og Tenor – ODIN 2023
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2023-09-19: Magnus Halvorsen – Cucumber kombinert med WireMock – ODIN 2023
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2023-04-13: Amir Yazdanshenas & Magnus E. Halvorsen – Introduction to Software Testing – ITLED4340 lecture at University of Oslo
2022-09-22: Erik Rogstad & Jeanette Horn (Skatteetaten) – Rike syntetiske testdata i Skatteetaten – ODIN 2022
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2022-09-22: Hager Debech – Kan teorien vike for en lettere hverdag? – ODIN 2022
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2022-04-21: Amir Yazdanshenas & Magnus E. Halvorsen – Introduction to Software Testing – ITLED4340 lecture at University of Oslo
2021-05-20: Amir Yazdanshenas & Magnus E. Halvorsen – Introduction to Software Testing – ITLED4340 lecture at University of Oslo
2021-04-13: Shuai Wang & Hager Debech – Model-Based Testing (MBT) in practice: Quick introduction and case studies & ecFeed – model-based test platform – TDT4242 guest lecture at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
2020-11-06: Shuai Wang & Minh Nguyen – Smart testoptimalisering med ecFeed – ODIN 2020
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2020-06-04: Amir Yazdanshenas & Magnus E. Halvorsen – Introduction to Software Testing – ITLED4340 lecture at University of Oslo
2019-11-07: Konstantinos Antonakopoulos – Blockchain consensus in neural networks as applied to swarm robotics (real-case scenario) – AIM North 2019
2019-09-18: Ronny Mandal & Razieh Behjati – Rich Synthetic Test Data – ODIN 2019
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2019-09-18: Minh Nguyen – AI/ML-powered Software Testing – Present & Future – ODIN 2019
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2019-09-11: Razieh Behjati – Synthetic Norway: How We Use Machine Learning to Generate a Synthetic Population? – JavaZone 2019
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2019-05-06: Amir Yazdanshenas & Magnus E. Halvorsen – Introduction to Software Testing – ITLED4340 lecture at University of Oslo
2019-04-22: Shuai Wang – Open speech at 15th workshop on advanced in Model-Based Testing (A-MOST 2019), Xi’an, China
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2019-03-27: Shuai Wang – Model-Based Testing: An Introduction, Den Norske Dataforening, Oslo, Norway
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