TY - GEN
T1 - An empirical evaluation to study benefits of visual versus textual test coverage information
AU - Garousi, Vahid
AU - Koochakzadeh, Negar
PY - 2010/11/12
Y1 - 2010/11/12
N2 - The code coverage tools (e.g., CodeCover for Java) and the textual coverage information (e.g., only metric values) they produce are very useful for testers. However with increasing size and complexity of code bases of both systems under test and also their automated test suites (e.g., based on JUnit), there is a need for visualization techniques to enable testers to analyze code coverage in higher levels of abstraction. To address the above need, we recently proposed a test coverage visualization tool. To assess the usability, effectiveness and usefulness of this tool in unit testing and test maintenance tasks, we have conducted a controlled experiment, the results of which show that the tool can benefit testers more compared to textual coverage information.
AB - The code coverage tools (e.g., CodeCover for Java) and the textual coverage information (e.g., only metric values) they produce are very useful for testers. However with increasing size and complexity of code bases of both systems under test and also their automated test suites (e.g., based on JUnit), there is a need for visualization techniques to enable testers to analyze code coverage in higher levels of abstraction. To address the above need, we recently proposed a test coverage visualization tool. To assess the usability, effectiveness and usefulness of this tool in unit testing and test maintenance tasks, we have conducted a controlled experiment, the results of which show that the tool can benefit testers more compared to textual coverage information.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78149259863&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-15585-7_19
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-15585-7_19
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78149259863
SN - 3642155847
SN - 9783642155840
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 189
EP - 193
BT - Testing - Practice and Research Techniques - 5th International Academic and Industrial Conference, TAIC PART 2010, Proceedings
T2 - Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference - Practice and Research Techniques, TAIC PART 2010
Y2 - 3 September 2010 through 5 September 2010
ER -