PhD Candidate in Automated Testing in Continuous Integration Environments

The successful candidate will join the Serval research group by working on the MeMoRIA (FNR-funded) project. The subject of the thesis will be “Just in time Metamorphic Testing” with supervisor Dr. Mike Papadakis. Successful PhD candidates will extensively explore and develop software engineering techniques that include the feasibility, practicality and success evaluation of prototype implementations.

The team you will be working with:

• Mike Papadakis
• Renzo Degiovanni
• Nazareno Aguirre

The position holder will be required to perform the following tasks/will do research on the following topics:

• Define the notions for Commit-Aware Metamorphic Testing and commit-relevant metamorphic properties
• Implement an automated solution for performing Metamorphic Testing on CI environments

PhD Student Role: Under the direction of a professor, the candidate will carry out research activities and write a thesis with the main goal of obtain a PhD in the area of Software Engineering. This includes conducting literature surveys and establishing state-of-the-art; developing necessary experimental and simulation facilities where required; planning, executing, and analyzing experiments and simulations; conducting joint and independent research activities; contributing to project deliverables, milestones, demonstrations, and meetings; disseminating results at international scientific conferences/workshops and peer reviewed scientific publications.