A survey on testing and reuse

This survey tries to give an account of what type of trends exist today in software reuse and testing. The focus was to try to find out how developers use different tools today and what tools are lacking, especially in the field of reuse and testing. The population came from different types of communities and organizations, to better give us a generalized picture of today´s developers. We found that a majority of the developers participating in the survey did not test reused code and other testing methodologies were not used to the extent that the scientific community takes for granted. A more automated approach to testing in combination with code coverage analysis and statistical analysis was found to be needed.