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 …

Challenges and strategies for motivating software testing personnel

A Deak, T Stålhane, G Sindre - Information and software Technology, 2016 - Elsevier
Context Software testing is the key to ensuring a successful and reliable software product or
service, yet testing is often considered uninteresting work compared to design or coding. As …

The impact of Software Testing education on code reliability: An empirical assessment

OAL Lemos, FF Silveira, FC Ferrari, A Garcia - Journal of Systems and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Software Testing (ST) is an indispensable part of software development. Proper testing
education is thus of paramount importance. Indeed, the mere exposition to ST knowledge …

Empirical research on concurrent software testing: A systematic mapping study

SM Melo, JC Carver, PSL Souza, SRS Souza - Information and Software …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background: Concurrent software testing is a costly and difficult task, especially due to the
exponential increase in the test sequences caused by non-determinism. Such an issue has …

[PDF][PDF] Automated software test data generation: direction of research

H Tahbildar, B Kalita - International Journal of Computer Science and …, 2011 - Citeseer
In this paper we are giving an overview of automatic test data generation. The basic
objective of this paper is to acquire the basic concepts related to automated test data …

Node-disjoint paths in hierarchical hypercube networks

RY Wu, GH Chen, YL Kuo, GJ Chang - Information Sciences, 2007 - Elsevier
The hierarchical hypercube network is suitable for massively parallel systems. One of its
appealing properties is the low number of connections per processor, which can facilitate …

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 approach for experimentally evaluating effectiveness and efficiency of coverage criteria for software testing

A Gupta, P Jalote - International Journal on Software Tools for Technology …, 2008 - Springer
Experimental work in software testing has generally focused on evaluating the effectiveness
and effort requirements of various coverage criteria. The important issue of testing efficiency …

How well do professional developers test with code coverage visualizations? an empirical study

J Lawrence, S Clarke, M Burnett… - 2005 IEEE Symposium …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite years of availability of testing tools, professional software developers still seem to
need better support to determine the effectiveness of their tests. Without improvements in …

Analysis of problems in testing practices

J Kasurinen, O Taipale… - 2009 16th Asia-Pacific …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The objective of this qualitative study was to explore and understand the problems of
software testing in practice and find improvement proposals for these issues. The study …