Mining Software Repositories to Study Co-Evolution of Production & Test Code

Title

Mining Software Repositories to Study Co-Evolution of Production & Test Code

 Author

Zaidman, A.E.
Van Rompaey, B.
Demeyer, S.
Van Deursen, A.

Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

 Department

Software Computer Technology

 Date

2008-12-31

 Abstract

Preprint of paper published in: ICST 2008 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation, 2008; doi:10.1109/ICST.2008.47 Engineering software systems is a multidisciplinary activity, whereby a number of artifacts must be created — and maintained — synchronously. In this paper we investigatewhether production code and the accompanying tests coevolveby exploring a project’s versioning system, code coveragereports and size-metrics. Our main aim for studyingthis co-evolution is to create awareness with developers andmanagers alike about the testing process that is followed.We explore the possibilities of our technique through twoopen source case studies and observe a number of differentco-evolution scenarios. We evaluate our results both withthe help of log-messages and the original developers of thesoftware system.

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 Publisher

Delft University of Technology, Software Engineering Research Group

 ISSN

1872-5392

 Source

Technical Report Series TUD-SERG-2008-003

 Part of collection

Institutional Repository

 Document type

report

 Rights

(c) 2008 The Author(s)
IEEE
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