Since the advent of object-oriented programming languages, using inheritance has been a fundamental concept in software design. It is used to achieve polymorphism, facilitating code reuse, enable ease in extension of software program. Despite its benefits, inheritance may introduce tight coupling between classes and overtime can degrade maintainability of software systems. this paper, we take the first step by studying inheritance and interface, with the focus on impact on test code maintainability and design decisions. We have developed a tool capable of identifying inheritance and interface changes in modified test classes within the software evolution commit history. Our empirical study spans 12 open-source Java systems, covering their entire developmental history up to 2021. We have mined 4,662 instances of inheritance and interface changes in test code. We have compiled a comprehensive catalog of motivations driving these changes. This catalog offers insights on how inheritance impact test maintainability, providing valuable guidance for developers navigating the use of inheritance and interface in test code.
Fri 19 AprDisplayed time zone: Lisbon change
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10:30 30mPoster | Exploring the Effectiveness of LLM based Test-driven Interactive Code Generation: User Study and Empirical Evaluation Posters Sarah Fakhoury Microsoft Research, Aaditya Naik University of Pennsylvania, Georgios Sakkas University of California at San Diego, Saikat Chakraborty Microsoft Research, Madan Musuvathi Microsoft Research, Shuvendu K. Lahiri Microsoft Research | ||
10:30 30mPoster | On the Need for Empirically Investigating Fast-Growing Programming Languages Posters Jahnavi Kumar Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India, Sridhar Chimalakonda Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati | ||
10:30 30mPoster | Decoding Log Parsing Challenges: A Comprehensive Taxonomy for Actionable Solutions Posters Issam Sedki Concordia University, Wahab Hamou-Lhadj Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Otmane Ait-Mohamed Concordia University, Naser Ezzati Jivan , Mohammed Shehab Concordia University | ||
10:30 30mPoster | Automated Code Editing with Search-Generate-Modify Posters Changshu Liu Columbia University, Pelin Cetin Columbia University, Yogesh Patodia Columbia University, Baishakhi Ray AWS AI Labs, Saikat Chakraborty Microsoft Research, Yangruibo Ding Columbia University | ||
10:30 30mPoster | Exploring the Impact of Inheritance on Test Code Maintainability Posters | ||
10:30 30mPoster | Improving Program Debloating with 1-DU Chain Minimality Posters Myeongsoo Kim Georgia Institute of Technology, Santosh Pande Georgia Institute of Technology, Alessandro Orso Georgia Institute of Technology Pre-print | ||
10:30 30mPoster | GoSpeechLess: Interoperable Serverless ML-based Cloud Services Posters Sashko Ristov University of Innsbruck, Philipp Gritsch University of Innsbruck, David Meyer University of Innsbruck, Michael Felderer German Aerospace Center (DLR) & University of Cologne | ||
10:30 30mPoster | Towards Precise Observations of Neural Model Robustness in Classification Posters Wenchuan Mu ISTD, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Kwan Hui Lim Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore | ||
10:30 30mPoster | Assessing AI-Based Code Assistants in Method Generation Tasks Posters Vincenzo Corso University of Milano - Bicocca, Leonardo Mariani University of Milano-Bicocca, Daniela Micucci University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, Oliviero Riganelli University of Milano - Bicocca | ||
10:30 30mPoster | Recovering Traceability Links between Release Notes and Related Software Artifacts Posters | ||
10:30 30mPoster | Improving the Condensing of Reverse Engineered Class Diagrams using Weighted Network Metrics Posters Weifeng Pan Zhejiang Gongshang University, Wei Wu Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hua Ming Oakland University, Dae-Kyoo Kim Oakland University, Jinkai Yang Oakland University, Ruochen Liu Oakland University Media Attached | ||
10:30 30mPoster | Exploring Data Cleanness in Defects4J and Its Influence on Fault Localization Efficiency Posters Md Nakhla Rafi Concordia University, An Ran Chen University of Alberta, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen Concordia University, Shaohua Wang Central University of Finance and Economics | ||
10:30 30mPoster | Learning to Represent Patches Posters Xunzhu Tang University of Luxembourg, Haoye Tian University of Melbourne, Zhenghan Chen Peking University, Weiguo Pian University of Luxembourg, Saad Ezzini Lancaster University, Abdoul Kader Kaboré University of Luxembourg, Andrew Habib ABB Corporate Research, Germany, Jacques Klein University of Luxembourg, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé University of Luxembourg | ||
10:30 30mPoster | Bringing Structure to Naturalness: On the Naturalness of ASTs Posters Profir-Petru Pârțachi National Institute of Informatics, Japan, Mahito Sugiyama National Institute of Informatics, Japan | ||