Usage of Tests in an Open-Source Community: A Case Study with Pharo Developers
| Autor: | Stéphane Ducasse, Nicolas Anquetil, Vincent Blondeau, Benoit Verhaeghe |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution (RMOD), Inria Lille - Nord Europe, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189 (CRIStAL), Centrale Lille-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centrale Lille-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Atos Worldline, Atos |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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[INFO.INFO-PL]Computer Science [cs]/Programming Languages [cs.PL]
Computer science business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Case study 020207 software engineering 02 engineering and technology Pharo Community Field (computer science) Test (assessment) Comprehension Regression Test Selection 020204 information systems 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Systems engineering Test suite Inter- views Quality (business) Duration (project management) Software engineering business Pharo Selection (genetic algorithm) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the 12th Edition of the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies Proceedings of the 12th Edition of the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies, Sep 2017, Maribor, Slovenia. pp.4:1--4:9, ⟨10.1145/3139903.3139909⟩ IWST |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3139903.3139909⟩ |
| Popis: | International audience; During the development, it is known that tests ensure the good behavior of applications and improve their quality. We studied developers testing behavior inside the Pharo community in the purpose to improve it. In this paper, we take inspiration from a paper of the literature to enhance our comprehension of test habits in our open source community. We report results of a field study on how often the developers use tests in their daily practice, whether they make use of tests selection and why they do. Results are strengthened by interviews with developers involved in the study. The main findings are that developers run tests every modifications of their code they did; most of the time they practice test selection (instead of launching an entire test suite); however they are not accurate in their selection; they change their selection depending on the duration of the tests and; contrary to expectation, test selection is not influenced by the size of the test suite. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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