A Characteristic Study of Parameterized Unit Tests in .NET Open Source Projects

Paper: http://mir.cs.illinois.edu/winglam/publications/2018/LamETAL18ECOOP.pdf

If you use any of this work, please cite our corresponding paper:

@inproceedings{LamETAL18ECOOP,
author = "Wing Lam and Siwakorn Srisakaokul and Blake Bassett and Peyman Mahdian and Tao Xie and Pratap Lakshman and Jonathan de Halleux",
title = "A characteristic study of parameterized unit tests in .{NET} open source projects",
booktitle = "ECOOP 2018: European Conference Object-Oriented Programming",
month = "July",
year = "2018",
address = "Amsterdam, Netherlands",
pages = "5:1–5:27"
}

• Analysis Tools

• Comprehensive list of subjects considered for our study

• Categorization Results of Pex MSDN Forum Posts Related to Parameterized Unit Tests

• Subjects' PUT Characteristics

• PUT Patterns

• Detailed information of subjects used for our study:

  • • Atom - A collection of reusable components with the main focus set on game development.

      • Git Repo

      • Revision: 48c100b

      • Developer(s): Software developer at Self-Responsibility Wien.

    • QuickGraph - QuickGraph provides generic directed/undirected graph datastructures and algorithms for .NET.

      • Git Repo

      • Revision: 1c6853b

      • QuickGraph examples of long PUTs: Example 1, Example 2, Example 3

      • Developer(s): Microsoft Research. Ex. Jonathan 'Peli' de Halleux.

    • OpenMheg - a MHEG-5 engine for Windows. It allows you to view over-the-air interactive services, such as BBCi and Teletext in the UK and other regions that use MHEG-5.

      • Git Repo

      • Revision: 2aa6914

      • Developer(s): Quantitative developer at Fidelity London.

    • SerialProtocol - A Serial Port Protocol Library For Auto Elevator System Test.

      • Git Repo

      • Revision: c8fd4fc

      • CreateTest01 example in Figure 9

      • Developer(s): Web engineer at unnamed startup.

    • Utilities-net - C# library containing various utility functions. Utility functions include checking whether XML is valid.

      • Git Repo

      • Revision: 7197299

      • Developer(s): Researcher at Russian Space Research Institute.

    • Functional-dotnet - library support for C# 3.0 and VB 9.

      • Git Repo

      • Revision: 4c320af

      • Developer(s): Researcher at Huawei Research.

    • Henoch - Project for web development using AJAX, an client side technology of Telerik.

      • Git Repo

      • Revision: 9c7f41e

      • Developer(s): Geldshop. Ex. Dwight Modiwirijo.

    • BBCode (Codekicker.BBCode) - BBCode-Parser can transform any BBCode into HTML or into an in-memory syntax tree that can be analyzed or translated.

      • Git Repo

      • Revision: 8f62376

      • Developer(s): Microsoft Research.

    • ConcurrentList - ConcurrentList is a simple lock-free append only vector that does not use locking primitive such as mutexes.

      • Git Repo

      • Revision: a78f9ad

      • Developer(s): Google.

      • Shweet - a simple SharePoint Foundation 2010 application that allows teams to do messaging and subscriptions in the style similar to twitter.

      • SVN Repo

      • Revision: Apr 29, 2010 version 58

      • Developer(s): Enterprise Architect at Zurich Insurance Company Ltd.

    • PFDS (PurelyFunctionalDataStructures) - implementation of some of the data structures described in Chris Okasaki's Book "Purely Functional Data Structures" all the implementations are in C# and try to implement the described algorithms as faithfully as possible while still implementing in an object oriented manner.

      • Git Repo

      • Revision: a6bfc15

      • Developer(s): Graduate student at the University of Illinois.