Quality Assurance Awareness in Open Source Software Projects on GitHub

A.E. Zaidman; Ali Khatami

doi:10.1109/SCAM59687.2023.00027

Quality Assurance Awareness in Open Source Software Projects on GitHub

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Abstract

Software engineers employ a variety of approaches to ensure the quality of software systems, including software testing, modern code review, automated static analysis, build automation, and continuous integration. To make effective decisions regarding quality assurance (QA), software engineers need to have an awareness of (1) the QA approaches that are in use in a project, and (2) how they are used. Through an exploratory, mixed-methods investigation we set out to better understand the awareness of software engineers in open-source software (OSS) development with regard to QA practices. This involved a largescale survey of 471 maintainers and contributors on GitHub. Our findings indicate that a high-level awareness among the respondents is common, but also that the respondents are less certain about how the practices are adopted; we further consider the perspective of both the contributor and the maintainer.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM)
Editors	Leon Moonen, Christian Newman, Alessandra Gorla
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society - Conference Publishing Services
Pages	174-185
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	979-8-3503-0506-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SCAM59687.2023.00027
Publication status	Published - 2023

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Name	Proceedings - 2023 IEEE 23rd International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2023

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Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care
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Keywords

Software Quality Assurance
Open Source Software (OSS)
Software Engineering
Software Testing
Code Review
Continuous Integration
Automation Workflows
GitHub

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Zaidman, A. E., & Khatami, A. (2023). Quality Assurance Awareness in Open Source Software Projects on GitHub. In L. Moonen, C. Newman, & A. Gorla (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM) (pp. 174-185). (Proceedings - 2023 IEEE 23rd International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2023). IEEE Computer Society - Conference Publishing Services. https://doi.org/10.1109/SCAM59687.2023.00027

Zaidman, A.E. ; Khatami, Ali. / Quality Assurance Awareness in Open Source Software Projects on GitHub. Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM). editor / Leon Moonen ; Christian Newman ; Alessandra Gorla. IEEE Computer Society - Conference Publishing Services, 2023. pp. 174-185 (Proceedings - 2023 IEEE 23rd International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2023).

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Quality Assurance Awareness in Open Source Software Projects on GitHub. / Zaidman, A.E.; Khatami, Ali.
Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM). ed. / Leon Moonen; Christian Newman; Alessandra Gorla. IEEE Computer Society - Conference Publishing Services, 2023. p. 174-185 (Proceedings - 2023 IEEE 23rd International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2023).

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Zaidman AE , Khatami A. Quality Assurance Awareness in Open Source Software Projects on GitHub. In Moonen L, Newman C, Gorla A, editors, Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM). IEEE Computer Society - Conference Publishing Services. 2023. p. 174-185. (Proceedings - 2023 IEEE 23rd International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2023). doi: 10.1109/SCAM59687.2023.00027

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