Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
7-2013
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Empirical study, Software testing, Adequacy, Test cases
Discipline
Software Engineering
Research Areas
Software and Cyber-Physical Systems
Publication
2013 13th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 2013): Proceedings: 29-30 July 2013, Nanjing, China
First Page
103
Last Page
112
ISBN
9781479905003
Identifier
10.1109/QSIC.2013.57
Publisher
IEEE
City or Country
Piscataway, NJ
Citation
KOCHHAR, Pavneet Singh; BISSYANDE, Tegawende F.; LO, David; and JIANG, Lingxiao.
An empirical study of adoption of software testing in open source projects. (2013). 2013 13th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 2013): Proceedings: 29-30 July 2013, Nanjing, China. 103-112.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2022
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Authors
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
http://doi.org/10.1109/QSIC.2013.57