Effects of Refactoring on Productivity in Relation to Code Understandability

Depending on the context, the benefits of clean code with respect to understandability might be less plain in the short term than is often claimed. This work has studied a system with legacy code in an industrial environment to evaluate if giving ‘clean code’ to developers would immediately lead to increases in productivity. They were given...

Automatic Unit Test Generation

While test generators have the potential to significantly reduce the costs of software testing and have the ability to increase the quality of the software tests (and thus, the software itself), they unfortunately have only limited support for testing object-oriented software and their underlying test generation techniques fail to scale up to...