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

Kochaar Pavneet Singh (1) , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé (2) , David Lo (1) , Lingxiao Jiang (3)

1 SIS - Singapore Management University
2 LaBRI - Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique
3 Singapore Management University

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.

Mots clés: Empirical study; Software testing; Adequacy; Test cases

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

Kochaar Pavneet Singh, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang. Adoption of Software Testing in Open Source Projects A Preliminary Study on 50,000 Projects. 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2013), Mar 2013, Genova, Italy. pp.1-4. ⟨hal-00807297⟩