Welcome to TSR-Catalog: The Catalog of Test Smells Refactorings

The catalog outlines the reengineering process for conducting test-specific refactorings to remove test smells. Initially, the catalog unifies information on test smells and test refactorings manually classified from 375 test files from Apache Foundation.

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Test Smells

Learn about test smells.

• Assertion Roulette

• Bad Naming

• Inappropriate Assertion

• Handling Exception

• Ignored Test

• Redundant Print

• Empty Test

• Unknown Test

• Sleepy Test

Test Refactorings

Learn about test refactorings.

• Renaming the test class

• Replace try/catch block with @Test expected annotation

• Replace try/catch block, @Test expected or @Rule annotations with the assertThrows

• Replace the not operator within the assertions

• Split conditional expressions into two different parameters

• Replace reserved words with an appropriate assertion

• Add an explanation message to the assertion

• Split assertions into single test methods

• Surround assertions with assertAll

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