Test smells are known as bad development practices that reflect poor design and implementation choices in software tests. Over the last decade, there are few attempts to study test smells in the context of system tests that interact with the System Under Test through a Graphical User Interface. To fill the gap, we conduct an exploratory analysis of test smells occurring in System User Interactive Tests (SUIT). We thus, compose a catalog of 35 SUIT-specific smells, identified through a multi-vocal literature review, and show how they differ from smells encountered in unit tests. We also conduct an empirical analysis to assess the diffuseness and removal of these smells in 48 industrial repositories and 12 open-source projects. Our results show that the same type of smells tends to appear in both industrial and open-source projects, but they are not addressed in the same way. We also find that smells originating from a combination of multiple code locations appear more often than those that are localized on a single line. This happens because of the difficulty to observe non-local smells without tool support. Furthermore, we find that smell-removing actions are not frequent with less than 50% of the affected tests ever undergoing a smell removal. Interestingly, while smell-removing actions are rare, some smells disappear while discarding tests, i.e., these smells do not appear in follow-up tests that replace the discarded ones.
Wed 17 MayDisplayed time zone: Hobart change
13:45 - 15:15 | Code smells and clonesTechnical Track / Journal-First Papers / SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice at Level G - Plenary Room 1 Chair(s): Sigrid Eldh Ericsson AB, Mälardalen University, Carleton Unviersity | ||
13:45 15mTalk | Comparison and Evaluation of Clone Detection Techniques with Different Code Representations Technical Track Yuekun Wang University of Science and Technology of China, Yuhang Ye University of Science and Technology of China, Yueming Wu Nanyang Technological University, Weiwei Zhang University of Science and Technology of China, Yinxing Xue University of Science and Technology of China, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University | ||
14:00 15mTalk | Learning Graph-based Code Representations for Source-level Functional Similarity Detection Technical Track Jiahao Liu National University of Singapore, Jun Zeng National University of Singapore, Xiang Wang University of Science and Technology of China, Zhenkai Liang National University of Singapore | ||
14:15 15mTalk | The Smelly Eight: An Empirical Study on the Prevalence of Code Smells in Quantum Computing Technical Track Qihong Chen University of California, Irvine, Rúben Câmara LASIGE and Department of Informatics are Faculdade Ciências Universidade de Lisboa,, José Campos University of Porto, Portugal, André Souto LaSiGE & FCUL, University of Lisbon, Iftekhar Ahmed University of California at Irvine Pre-print | ||
14:30 15mTalk | An Empirical Comparison on the Results of Different Clone Detection Setups for C-based Projects SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice Yan Zhou Huawei, Jinfu Chen Centre for Software Excellence, Huawei, Canada, Yong Shi Huawei Technologies, Boyuan Chen Centre for Software Excellence, Huawei Canada, Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang York University | ||
14:45 7mTalk | Developers’ perception matters: machine learning to detect developer-sensitive smells Journal-First Papers Daniel Oliveira PUC-Rio, Wesley Assunção Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria & Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Alessandro Garcia PUC-Rio, Baldoino Fonseca Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), Márcio Ribeiro Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil | ||
14:52 7mTalk | Smells in system user interactive tests Journal-First Papers Renaud Rwemalika University of Luxembourg, Sarra Habchi Ubisoft, Mike Papadakis University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Yves Le Traon University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Marie-Claude Brasseur BGL BNP Paribas | ||
15:00 7mTalk | Bash in the Wild: Language Usage, Code Smells, and Bugs Journal-First Papers Yiwen Dong University of Waterloo, Zheyang Li University of Waterloo, Yongqiang Tian University of Waterloo, Chengnian Sun University of Waterloo, Michael W. Godfrey University of Waterloo, Canada, Mei Nagappan University of Waterloo | ||
15:07 7mTalk | 1-to-1 or 1-to-n? Investigating the effect of function inlining on binary similarity analysis Journal-First Papers Ang Jia Xi'an Jiaotong University, Ming Fan Xi'an Jiaotong University, Wuxia Jin Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi Xu Xi'an Jiaotong University, Zhaohui Zhou Xi'an Jiaotong University, Qiyi Tang Tencent Security Keen Lab, Sen Nie Keen Security Lab, Tencent, Shi Wu Tencent Security Keen Lab, Ting Liu Xi'an Jiaotong University |