Paper Info
Title
A Study on the Relation between Antipatterns and the Cost of Class Unit Testing
Abstract
Antipatterns are known as recurring, poor design choices, recent and past studies indicated that they negatively affect software systems in terms of understand ability and maintainability, also increasing change-and defect-proneness. For this reason, refactoring actions are often suggested. In this paper, we investigate a different side-effect of antipatterns, which is their effect on testability and on testing cost in particular. We consider as (upper bound) indicator of testing cost the number of test cases that satisfy the minimal data member usage matrix (MaDUM) criterion proposed by Bashir and Goel. A study-carried out on four Java programs, Ant 1.8.3, ArgoUML 0.20, Check Style 4.0, and JFreeChart 1.0.13-supports the evidence that, on the one hand, antipatterns unit testing requires, on average, a number of test cases substantially higher than unit testing for non-antipattern classes. On the other hand, antipattern classes must be carefully tested because they are more defect-prone than other classes. Finally, we illustrate how specific refactoring actions-applied to classes participating in antipatterns-could reduce testing cost.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/CSMR.2013.26
Software Maintenance and Reengineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
Java,program testing,software maintenance,Ant 1.8.3 Java,ArgoUML 0.20 Java,Check Style 4.0 Java,JFreeChart 1.0.13 Java,Java program,MaDUM criterion,antipattern unit testing,class unit testing,minimal data member usage matrix,refactoring action,software change-proneness,software defect-proneness,software maintainability,testability effect,testing cost,Antipatterns,Object oriented testing,Refactoring,Testing cost
Computer science,Unit testing,Manual testing,White-box testing,Regression testing,Software performance testing,Software reliability testing,Test case,Code refactoring,Reliability engineering
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1534-5351
978-1-4673-5833-0
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
21
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aminata Sabane130.37
Di Penta, M.2114147.13
Giuliano Antoniol3833.41
Yann-Gael Gueheneuc42723141.93