Quality Assurance Awareness in Open Source Software Projects on GitHub

A.E. Zaidman, Ali Khatami*

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM)
EditorsLeon Moonen, Christian Newman, Alessandra Gorla
PublisherIEEE Computer Society - Conference Publishing Services
Pages174-185
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)979-8-3503-0506-7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023

Publication series

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

Bibliographical note

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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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