Studying Fine-Grained Co-Evolution Patterns of Production and Test Code

Studying Fine-Grained Co-Evolution Patterns of Production and Test Code

Marsavina, C.

Zaidman, A. (mentor)
Romano, D. (mentor)

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Software Engineering

Software Technology

2014-08-26

In this thesis we perform a study that, following a mixed methods approach, investigates fine-grained co-evolution patterns of production and test code. First, we mine fine-grained changes from the evolution of 5 open-source systems. Then, we use an association rule mining algorithm to generate the co-evolution patterns. Finally, we interpret the obtained patterns by performing a qualitative analysis. The results show 6 co-evolution patterns and provide insights into their appearance along the history of the analyzed software systems.

fine-grained
co-evolution
co-evolution patterns
production and test code

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Student theses

master thesis

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