How to catch 'em all

WatchDog, a family of IDE plug-ins to assess testing

Conference paper (2016)

Authors

M.M. Beller Software Engineering - EEMCS
I. Levaja Software Engineering - EEMCS
A. Panichella Software Engineering - EEMCS
G. Gousios Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
A.E. Zaidman Software Engineering - EEMCS
Research Group
Software Engineering (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
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Published Date

14-05-2016

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Software Technology

Research Group

Software Engineering

Abstract

As software engineering researchers, we are also zealous tool smiths. Building a research prototype is often a daunting task, let alone building an industry-grade family of tools supporting multiple platforms to ensure the generalizability of results. In this paper, we give advice to academic and industrial tool smiths on how to design and build an easy-to-maintain architecture capable of supporting multiple integrated development environments (IDEs). Our experiences stem from WatchDog, a multi-IDE infrastructure that assesses developer testing activities in vivo and that over 2,000 registered developers use. To these software engineering practitioners, Watch-Dog provides real-time and aggregated feedback in the form of individual testing reports.