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In Search of What We Experimentally Know about Unit Testing
November/December 2006 (vol. 23 no. 6)
pp. 72-80
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| Natalia Juristo, Ana M. Moreno, Sira Vegas, Mart? Solari, "In Search of What We Experimentally Know about Unit Testing," IEEE Software, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 72-80, November/December, 2006. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/MS.2006.166, author = {Natalia Juristo and Ana M. Moreno and Sira Vegas and Mart? Solari}, title = {In Search of What We Experimentally Know about Unit Testing}, journal ={IEEE Software}, volume = {23}, number = {6}, issn = {0740-7459}, year = {2006}, pages = {72-80}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2006.166}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - MGZN JO - IEEE Software TI - In Search of What We Experimentally Know about Unit Testing IS - 6 SN - 0740-7459 SP72 EP80 EPD - 72-80 A1 - Natalia Juristo, A1 - Ana M. Moreno, A1 - Sira Vegas, A1 - Mart? Solari, PY - 2006 KW - unit testing KW - testing techniques KW - experimentation KW - empirical methods KW - evidence-based software engineering VL - 23 JA - IEEE Software ER - | |||
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2006.166
Software engineering is a relatively young field and experimental software engineering is even younger, so undisputed facts are few and far between. Nevertheless, experimental results can help practitioners make better decisions, and the authors have aggregated results derived from individual unit-testing experiments published in high-quality journals and proceedings. Most of the experiments focus on two important characteristics of testing techniques: effectiveness (number of faults found) and efficiency (effort required to apply the technique). Some experiments study the quality of test-case sets according to different criteria. Although the aggregation results are far from ideal, they identify grounded information that's potentially useful for testing practitioners in test-case generation, test-set evaluation, and test-case selection.
Index Terms:
unit testing, testing techniques, experimentation, empirical methods, evidence-based software engineering
Citation:
Natalia Juristo, Ana M. Moreno, Sira Vegas, Mart? Solari, "In Search of What We Experimentally Know about Unit Testing," IEEE Software, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 72-80, Nov.-Dec. 2006, doi:10.1109/MS.2006.166
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