Students vs. professionals: improving the learning of software testing

Students vs. professionals: improving the learning of software testing

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학회: ICSE '22: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings

Software testing is a crucial phase of software development. Educators now are assessing tests written by students. Methods have been proposed to assess the completeness of student-written tests. However, there is more to good test quality than completeness, and these additional quality are not assessed by the previous work. Test smells are patterns of poorly designed tests that may negatively affect the quality of test and production code. We propose to assess test smells in students' code to improve the quality of software tests they write. In the early stages of this research, we will examine whether practitioners actually spend time and energy to remove those test smells summarized by researchers backed by real-world software projects. Then, we will develop and evaluate our new assessment method.