Paper Info
Title
Did we test our changes?: assessing alignment between tests and development in practice
Abstract
Testing and development are increasingly performed by different organizations, often in different countries and time zones. Since their distance complicates communication, close alignment between development and testing becomes increasingly challenging. Unfortunately, poor alignment between the two threatens to decrease test effectiveness or increases costs. In this paper, we propose a conceptually simple approach to assess test alignment by uncovering methods that were changed but never executed during testing. The paper's contribution is a large industrial case study that analyzes development changes, test service activity and field faults of an industrial business information system over 14 months. It demonstrates that the approach is suitable to produce meaningful data and supports test alignment in practice.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/IWAST.2013.6595800
AST
Keywords
Field
DocType
dynamic analysis,software maintenance,software testing,untested code,measurement,computer bugs,maintenance engineering,time zones,software systems,testing
Business information,Systems engineering,Software engineering,Computer science,Software bug,Software system,Software maintenance,Program testing,Maintenance engineering,Software testing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-6161-3
5
0.51
References 
Authors
15
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sebastian Eder1476.27
Benedikt Hauptmann2879.13
Maximilian Junker3628.73
Elmar Jürgens4184.76
Rudolf Vaas5172.28
Karl-Heinz Prommer670.88