Do open source software projects conduct tests enough?

Ryohei Takasawa; Kazunori Sakamoto; Akinori Ihara; Hironori Washizaki; Yoshiaki Fukazawa

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-13835-0_32

Do open source software projects conduct tests enough?

Ryohei Takasawa^*, Kazunori Sakamoto, Akinori Ihara, Hironori Washizaki, Yoshiaki Fukazawa

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School of Fundamental Science and Engineering

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Abstract

Do open source software projects provide and maintain tests? What metrics are correlated with the test success? This paper answers these questions by executing tests of 452 open source software projects in GitHub and measuring 13 metrics from 77 projects. Only 117 projects passed all test cases. Additionally, the results are correlated with the comment density, public documented API density, and test coverage.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	322-325
Number of pages	4
Journal	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	8892
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13835-0_32
Publication status	Published - 2014

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Theoretical Computer Science
Computer Science(all)

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Do open source software projects conduct tests enough? / Takasawa, Ryohei; Sakamoto, Kazunori; Ihara, Akinori; Washizaki, Hironori ; Fukazawa, Yoshiaki.

In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 8892, 2014, p. 322-325.

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