Print Email Facebook Twitter Studying the co-evolution of production and test code in open source and industrial developer test processes through repository mining Title Studying the co-evolution of production and test code in open source and industrial developer test processes through repository mining Author Zaidman, A. Van Rompaey, B. Van Deursen, A. Demeyer, S. Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Software Computer Technology Date 2010-09-15 Abstract Many software production processes advocate rigorous development testing alongside functional code writing, which implies that both test code and production code should co-evolve. To gain insight in the nature of this co-evolution, this paper proposes three views (realized by a tool called TeMo) that combine information from a software project’s versioning system, the size of the various artifacts and the test coverage reports. We validate these views against two open source and one industrial software project and evaluate our results both with the help of log messages, code inspections and the original developers of the software system. With these views we could recognize different co-evolution scenarios (i.e., synchronous and phased) andmake relevant observations for both developers as well as test engineers. Subject software repository miningsoftware testingco-evolutionsoftware evolutiontest coverage To reference this document use: https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:8f10ce1f-073f-484f-8ecb-d84fd07a6658 Publisher Springer Source Empirical Software Engineering, 16 (3), 2011 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © The Author(s) 2010. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Files PDF art3A10.10072Fs10664-010-9143-7.pdf 2.66 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:8f10ce1f-073f-484f-8ecb-d84fd07a6658/datastream/OBJ/view