An empirical study of adoption of software testing in open source projects

In software engineering, testing is a crucial activity that is designed to ensure the quality of program code. For this activity, software teams spend substantial resources constructing test cases to thoroughly assess the correctness of software functionality. What is the proportion of open source p...

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Main Authors: KOCHHAR, Pavneet Singh, BISSYANDE, Tegawende F., LO, David, JIANG, Lingxiao
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sis_research-30212017-04-17T02:28:43Z An empirical study of adoption of software testing in open source projects KOCHHAR, Pavneet Singh BISSYANDE, Tegawende F. LO, David JIANG, Lingxiao In software engineering, testing is a crucial activity that is designed to ensure the quality of program code. For this activity, software teams spend substantial resources constructing test cases to thoroughly assess the correctness of software functionality. What is the proportion of open source projects that include test cases? What is the effect of number of developers on the number of test cases? In this study, we explore open source projects and investigate the correlation between the presence of test cases and various project development characteristics, including the number of lines of code, the size of development teams and the quantity of bug reports. The results show that projects with test cases are bigger in size and projects with bigger team sizes have higher number of test cases. However, surprisingly, number of test cases has a weak correlation with the number of bugs. 2013-07-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2022 info:doi/10.1109/QSIC.2013.57 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3021/viewcontent/qsic13test__1_.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Empirical study Software testing Adequacy Test cases Software Engineering
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topic Empirical study
Software testing
Adequacy
Test cases
Software Engineering
spellingShingle Empirical study
Software testing
Adequacy
Test cases
Software Engineering
KOCHHAR, Pavneet Singh
BISSYANDE, Tegawende F.
LO, David
JIANG, Lingxiao
An empirical study of adoption of software testing in open source projects
description In software engineering, testing is a crucial activity that is designed to ensure the quality of program code. For this activity, software teams spend substantial resources constructing test cases to thoroughly assess the correctness of software functionality. What is the proportion of open source projects that include test cases? What is the effect of number of developers on the number of test cases? In this study, we explore open source projects and investigate the correlation between the presence of test cases and various project development characteristics, including the number of lines of code, the size of development teams and the quantity of bug reports. The results show that projects with test cases are bigger in size and projects with bigger team sizes have higher number of test cases. However, surprisingly, number of test cases has a weak correlation with the number of bugs.
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author KOCHHAR, Pavneet Singh
BISSYANDE, Tegawende F.
LO, David
JIANG, Lingxiao
author_facet KOCHHAR, Pavneet Singh
BISSYANDE, Tegawende F.
LO, David
JIANG, Lingxiao
author_sort KOCHHAR, Pavneet Singh
title An empirical study of adoption of software testing in open source projects
title_short An empirical study of adoption of software testing in open source projects
title_full An empirical study of adoption of software testing in open source projects
title_fullStr An empirical study of adoption of software testing in open source projects
title_full_unstemmed An empirical study of adoption of software testing in open source projects
title_sort empirical study of adoption of software testing in open source projects
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2013
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2022
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3021/viewcontent/qsic13test__1_.pdf
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