Adoption of Software Testing in Open Source Projects--A Preliminary Study on 50,000 Projects

Author

Kochhar, Pavneet Singh ; Bissyande, Tegawende F. ; Lo, Daniel ; Lingxiao Jiang

Author_Institution

Singapore Manage. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2013

fDate

5-8 March 2013

Firstpage

353

Lastpage

356

Abstract

In software engineering, testing is a crucial activity that is designed to ensure the quality of program code. For this activity, development teams spend substantial resources constructing test cases to thoroughly assess the correctness of software functionality. What is however the proportion of open source projects that include test cases? What kind of projects are more likely to include test cases? In this study, we explore 50,000 projects and investigate the correlation between the presence of test cases and various project development characteristics, including the lines of code and the size of development teams.

Keywords

program testing; project management; public domain software; software quality; code line; development team size; open source projects; program code quality; project development characteristics; software engineering; software functionality; software testing adoption; Computer bugs; Correlation; Open source software; Software engineering; Software testing; Adequacy; Empirical study; Software testing; Test cases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), 2013 17th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Genova

ISSN

1534-5351

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5833-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSMR.2013.48

Filename

6498487