An Empirical Study of Adoption of Software Testing in Open Source Projects

Author

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

Author_Institution

Singapore Manage. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2013

fDate

29-30 July 2013

Firstpage

103

Lastpage

112

Abstract

Testing is an indispensable part of software development efforts. It helps to improve the quality of software systems by finding bugs and errors during development and deployment. Huge amount of resources are spent on testing efforts. However, to what extent are they used in practice? In this study, we investigate the adoption of testing in open source projects. We study more than 20,000 non-trivial software projects and explore the correlation of test cases with various project development characteristics including: project size, development team size, number of bugs, number of bug reporters, and the programming languages of these projects.

Keywords

program debugging; program testing; programming languages; project management; public domain software; software quality; bug finding; bug reporters; development team size; error finding; open source projects; programming languages; project development characteristics; project size; software development efforts; software projects; software quality systems; software testing; test case correlation; Computer bugs; Computer languages; Correlation; Software; Software testing; Writing; Adequacy; Empirical study; Software testing; Test cases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quality Software (QSIC), 2013 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Najing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/QSIC.2013.57

Filename

6605914