Quality Assurance Awareness in Open Source Software Projects on GitHub

Conference paper (2023)

Authors

A.E. Zaidman Software Engineering - EEMCS
Ali Khatami Software Engineering - EEMCS
Research Group
Software Engineering (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2023 A.E. Zaidman, Ali Khatami
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/SCAM59687.2023.00027
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Published Date

2023

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Software Technology

Research Group

Software Engineering

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.

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