An empirical study of adoption of software testing in open source projects

PS Kochhar, TF Bissyandé, D Lo… - 2013 13th International …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Adoption of software testing in open source projects--A preliminary study on 50,000 projects

PS Kochhar, TF Bissyandé, D Lo… - 2013 17th european …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

An empirical study on the adequacy of testing in open source projects

PS Kochhar, F Thung, D Lo… - 2014 21st Asia-Pacific …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
During software maintenance, testing is a crucial activity to ensure the quality of code as it
evolves over time. With the increasing size and complexity of software, adequate software …

An industrial survey on contemporary aspects of software testing

A Causevic, D Sundmark… - 2010 Third International …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software testing is a major source of expense in software projects and a proper testing
process is a critical ingredient in the cost-efficient development of high-quality software …

Classification of software testing tools based on the software testing methods

KM Mustafa, RE Al-Qutaish… - … Conference on Computer …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
During the software development life cycle, testing is highly needed to assure the quality of
the software process and product. For many years, researchers and practitioners came-up …

How (much) do developers test?

M Beller, G Gousios, A Zaidman - 2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
What do we know about software testing in the real world? It seems we know from Fred
Brooks' seminal work" The Mythical Man-Month" that 50% of project effort is spent on testing …

Software testing as an online service: Observations from practice

LM Riungu, O Taipale… - 2010 Third International …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The objective of this qualitative study was to explore and understand the conditions that
influence software testing as an online service and elicit important research issues …

An empirical study of bugs in test code

A Vahabzadeh, AM Fard… - 2015 IEEE international …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Testing aims at detecting (regression) bugs in production code. However, testing code is just
as likely to contain bugs as the code it tests. Buggy test cases can silently miss bugs in the …

Bug hunt: Making early software testing lessons engaging and affordable

S Elbaum, S Person, J Dokulil… - … Conference on Software …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software testing efforts account for a large part of software development costs. However, as
educators, we struggle to properly prepare students to perform software testing activities …

A walk through of software testing techniques

J Gaur, A Goyal, T Choudhury… - … System Modeling & …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software Testing is a process of program's execution with having the intentions of finding
errors in order to attain software with null defect. For this purpose various testing technique …