Exploring Code Coverage in Open-Source Development

Software development has increasingly become an activity that is (partially) done online on open-source platforms such as GitHub, and with it, so have the tools developers typically use. One such category of tools is that of code coverage tools. These tools track and report coverage data generated during CI tests. As the adoption of these tools...

Empirical Study on Test Generation Using GitHub Copilot

Writing unit tests is a crucial task in the software development lifecycle, ensuring the correctness of the software developed. Due to its time-consuming and laborious nature, it is, however, often neglected by software engineers. Numerous automatic test generation tools have been devised to ease unit testing efforts, but these test generation...

What drives cryptocurrency market dynamics?: Analysing external variable influence on cryptocurrency prices

Since the introduction of Blockchain technologies in Bitcoin (Nakamoto & Bitcoin, 2008), there has been over a decade of innovation and growth. The cryptocurrency markets have formed their own ecosystem and followings. On Wednesday 12 th May, 2021, cryptocurrencies reached their highest total market capitalisation yet, at $ 2.5 trillion ...

Octopull: Integrating Static Analysis with Code Reviews

Teams using modern day software engineering practices often incorporate code reviews as a quality assurance step in their development. These code reviews are intended to uncover software quality defects before code changes are incorporated into the project. Certain classes of these software quality defects can be detected by so-called static...

Using Github Profiles in Software Developer Recruitment and Hiring

Social coding platforms can provide initial understanding about the skills exhibited by the developers on these platforms. In contexts where candidates social profile information is useful for recruiting software developers, the information regarding the developers on these platforms can be leveraged by the recruiters with some software...

Prioritizing pull requests

Previous work showed that in the pull-based development model integrators face challenges with regard to prioritizing work in the face of multiple concurrent pull requests. We identified the manual prioritization heuristics applied by integrators and extracted features from these heuristics. The features are used to train a machine learning...

Combining source code and test coverage changes in pull requests

With the increasing popularity of open-source version control platforms like GitHub, developers get more feedback on the changes they make. A common tool in version control systems is the highlighted difference view of the source code. This enables reviewers to quickly view the changes made. A missing feature is comparison of the test coverage....