A Catalog of Transformations to Remove Smells From Natural Language Tests

Understand

Test smells can pose difficulties during testing activities, such as poor maintainability, non-deterministic behavior, and incomplete verification.

• Existing research has extensively addressed test smells in automated software tests but little attention has been given to smells in natural language tests.
• While some research has identified and catalogued such smells, there is a lack of systematic approaches for their removal.
• Consequently, there is also a lack of tools to automatically identify and remove natural language test smells.