Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), 2013 17th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Genova
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5833-0
DOI :
10.1109/CSMR.2013.48
