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ICPC 2020
Mon 13 - Wed 15 July 2020
co-located with ICSE 2020
Mon 13 Jul 2020 15:24 - 15:36 at ICPC - Session 1: Tests Chair(s): Dario Di Nucci

Comprehending the degree to which software components support testing is important to accurately schedule testing activities, train developers, and plan effective refactoring actions. Software testability estimates such property by relating code characteristics to the test effort. The main studies of testability reported in the literature investigate the relation between class metrics and test effort in terms of the size and complexity of the associated test suites. They report a moderate correlation of some class metrics to test-effort metrics, but suffer from two main limitations: (i) the results hardly generalize due to the small empirical evidence (datasets with no more than eight software projects); and (ii) mostly ignore the quality of the tests. However, considering the quality of the tests is important. Indeed, a class may have a low test effort because the associated tests are of poor quality, and not because the class is easier to test. In this paper, we propose an approach to measure testability that normalizes the test effort with respect to the test quality, which we quantify in terms of code coverage and mutation score. We present the results of a set of experiments on a dataset of 9,861 Java classes, belonging to 1,186 open source projects, with around 1.5 million of lines of code overall. The results confirm that normalizing the test effort with respect to the test quality largely improves the correlation between class metrics and the test effort. Better correlations result in better prediction power and thus better prediction of the test effort.

Mon 13 Jul

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15:00 - 16:00
Session 1: TestsResearch / Tool Demonstration / Industry at ICPC
Chair(s): Dario Di Nucci Tilburg University
15:00
12m
Paper
Testing of Mobile Applications in the Wild: A Large-Scale Empirical Study on Android Apps
Research
Fabiano Pecorelli University of Salerno, Gemma Catolino Delft University of Technology, Filomena Ferrucci University of Salerno, Andrea De Lucia University of Salerno, Fabio Palomba University of Salerno
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15:12
12m
Paper
UI Screens Identification and Extraction from Mobile Programming Screencasts
Research
Mohammad Alahmadi Florida State University, Abdulkarim Malkadi Florida State University, USA - Jazan University, KSA, Sonia Haiduc Florida State University
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15:24
12m
Paper
Measuring Software Testability Modulo Test Quality
Research
Valerio Terragni Università della Svizzera Italiana, Pasquale Salza University of Zurich, Mauro Pezze Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) and Schaffhausen Institute of Technology (SIT)
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15:36
12m
Paper
Program Slicing and Execution Tracing for Differential Testing at Adobe Analytics
Industry
Darryl Jarman Adobe, Scott Hunt Adobe, Dave Towey University of Nottingham Ningbo China
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15:48
12m
Paper
Just-In-Time Test Smell Detection and Refactoring: The DARTS Project
Tool Demonstration
Stefano Lambiase University of Salerno, Andrea Cupito University of Salerno, Fabiano Pecorelli University of Salerno, Andrea De Lucia University of Salerno, Fabio Palomba University of Salerno
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